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The FPR-UCLA Center for
Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) fosters training and research at UCLA
to explore how culture and social relations inform brain development, how
the brain organizes cultural and social development, and how development
gives rise to a cultural brain. At the same time, we aim to understand how
the brain makes it natural to acquire, use, and create culture; how
development builds on neurally mediated socio-cultural practices; how
social relations are culturally informed; how culture is acquired in social
interaction; and, how culture and social relations are constructed through
neurally potentiated developmental processes.
Participating faculty
and trainees are members of the UCLA programs in Anthropology, Applied
Linguistics, Education,
Neuroscience, and Psychology
Training Program
CBD offers training that integrates theory and research on culture, brain,
and development at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels.
Participating faculty come from the disciplines of anthropology,
psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, psychiatry, and education. The
Training Program includes a one-quarter Integrative Seminar on a different
topic each year, and biweekly Forum talks throughout the
academic year.
Lecture Series in Culture, Brain, and Development
The Lecture Series consists of
three talks each year by important researchers in culture, brain, and
development from the United States and around the world.
Fellowships
CBD offers Predoctoral Fellowships and the Foundation for Psychocultural
Research offers Postdoctoral Fellowships for qualified candidates to
participate in the CBD program at UCLA. Applicants should have expertise or
definite research goals in at least two of the three core areas (culture,
brain, and development), and have a clearly formulated interest in the
third field. For more information, see the Training/Fellowships
section.
Exchange Across
Universities
CBD has an ongoing exchange program with the undergraduate CBD Program at Hampshire College
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