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Dr. Immordino-Yang: How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning

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The Role of Culture and Socialities in Cognitive Development

I wanted to understand how we could use and leverage developmental biology as a kind of constraint from which to appreciate the kinds of theoretical frames we were inventing in the real world. And so I set out to try to study about the ways in which culture and socialities shaped the brain and physiology and survival mechanisms and development. How could these two systems, you know, act as a Venn diagram? It seemed to me that was where we could most directly target to start to deeply understand the nature of our developmental psychobiological growth themselves.

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