Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

The Prefrontal Cortex: Through Maturation, Socialization, and Regression

Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

Anna Dina L. Joaquin [+-]
California State University
Anna Dina L. Joaquin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESL at California State University, Northridge. She is co-author (with Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, Andrea Mates and John Schumann) of The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language (OUP, 2009).

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This chapter looks at the prominent role of the prefrontal cortex in social behavior, and suggests that it is a neural mediator for the processes of socialization. This will be demonstrated by comparing the behaviors of two seemingly different populations in naturally occurring environments. The first population will be children, who have prefrontal cortices that have not fully matured. With ethnographic data, the author will show how society’s socialization practices work to educate, enculturate, and socialize this part of the brain. The second population, patients diagnosed with FTD, has deteriorating prefrontal cortices, associated with a decreasing ability to implement socialized behavior.

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Joaquin, Anna Dina L.. The Prefrontal Cortex: Through Maturation, Socialization, and Regression. Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 167 - 198 Jun 2010. ISBN 9781781790397. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=22116. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.22116. Jun 2010

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