Speaker name
Bernardo Yáñez Macías Valadez
Institutional affiliation
Dirección de Antropología Física, INAH
Jueves 14 de noviembre, 15:30 - 17:30
Neurodivergence, culture and cognition
Abstact
The cognitive and behavioral diversity of human beings is based, among other things, on the culture in which the individual develops. This cultural diversity has its correlate in neurodiversity, which is evident in the different behaviors we observe in people. Within neurodiversity there is a concept that seeks to characterize people who deviate from the 'norm' and present ontogenetic development processes, behaviors, emotions, different learning, but which are not necessarily pathological or disabling. This group of people is increasingly referred to as neurodivergent individuals. In this paper I intend to establish a more or less defined characterization of the concept of neurodivergence, while trying to link it to the cultural and cognitive processes that are the ecosystem where these individuals develop their lives on a daily basis. Some of the conditions where the concept of neurodivergence is most frequently used are in cases where traits associated with the autism spectrum, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, among others, are present.
Semblance
He completed his undergraduate studies in Physical Anthropology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). He obtained his master's degree in the Cognition and Human Evolution program at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. She studied and received her PhD degree in Philosophy of Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. From 2011 to 2018 he served as associate professor-researcher 'C' at the Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano. In 2018 he joined the Directorate of Physical Anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, where he has his current assignment as a Full Professor-Researcher 'B'. He is a member of the National System of Researchers in the category of national researcher level I. In 2010 he received the "Javier Romero Molina" Award for the best undergraduate thesis in physical anthropology. He has developed studies of primate behavior and cognition, and has also delved into topics related to prehistory, the emergence of symbolic thought and rock art. On the other hand, he has specialized publications on topics related to anthropophysical theory, human evolution and with a critical perspective of scientific practices in various fields. He is currently a member of the editorial committee of the journals Diario de Campo and Rutas de Campo of INAH; as well as of the journal Estudios de Antropología Biológica, a publication edited by IIA-UNAM, AMAB and DAF-INAH. For more than a decade he has been teaching Paleoanthropology and prehistory and Phylogeny and primate behavior at the ENAH.