Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind

AARO TOOMELA is Visiting Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Tartu in Estonia.

• Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human MindHuman Development from the Perspective of Comparative PsychologyWould Humans Without Language Be Apes? Jacques VauclairContinuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors by Kathleen R. GibsonAssumptions and Knowledge Construction: What Can Science Learn from Primate Languages and Cultures? by Jaan ValsinerCulture in the Developing or Regressing BrainCulture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships by Alfredo ArdilaArt and Brain Evolution by Tabassum Ahmed and Bruce L. MillerCultural Perspective on the Human DevelopmentOrigins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behaviour: An Ecocultural Perspective by John BerrySemiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises: Michail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman by Ivana MarkovaThe Role of Culture in Child DevelopmentMaking Sense in a World of Symbols by Katherine NelsonDevelopment of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind by Aaro ToomelaConstructing Knowledge Beyond Senses: Worlds Too Big and Small to See by Eve KikasAfterwords: Animals, Brain, Culture, and Children--Emerging Picture from Complementary Perspectives by Aaro ToomelaBibliographyIndex