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Nongenetic inheritance, linguistic competence, prenatal experience and behavior manipulation: recent contributions from behavioral neurobiology and neuropsychology to the explanation of behavior
Herencia no genética, competencia lingüística, experiencia prenatal y manipulación de la conducta: aportes recientes de la Neurobiología conductual y la Neuropsicología a la explicación del comportamiento;
Herança não genética, competência linguística, experiência pré-natal e manipulação do comportamento: contribuições recentes da Neurobiologia Comportamental e da Neuropsicologia à explicação do comportamento
Autor
Reyes, Andres Felipe
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Resumen
This article gives an overview of presuppositions and explanations posed by behaviorist psychology (particularly its radical branch), cognitive–nativist sciences (i.e. psycholinguistics and a branch of cognitive psychology) and other disciplines regarding important psychological events such as anxiety, stress, fear, mood states and language. In relation to the discussion of environment versus genetics, contributions from behavioral neurobiology and neuropsychology are added, showing evidence of traits that can be multigenerationally inherited in a non-genetic way, which have an impact thought the life of organisms and on their way of interacting with the environment; ways in which behavior can be altered by recently unsuspected environmental agents or events, and the overlooked role of prenatal experiences in the explanation of behavior. The evidence calls into question presuppositions made by the academic disciplines listed above, and suggests alternative behavior reinterpretations and explanations