This volume presents recent empirical advances using neuroscience techniques to investigate how culture influences neural processes underlying a wide range of human abilities, from perception and scene processing to memory and social cognition. It also highlights the theoretical and methodological issues with conducting cultural neuroscience research. Section I provides diverse theoretical perspectives on how culture and biology interact are represented. Sections II -VI is to demonstrate how cultural values, beliefs, practices and experience affect neural systems underlying a wide range of human behavior from perception and cognition to emotion, social cognition and decision-making. The final section presents arguments for integrating the study of culture and the human brain by providing an explicit articulation of how the study of culture can inform the study of the brain and vice versa.
Author(s): Joan Y. Chiao (Eds.)
Series: Progress in Brain Research 178
Edition: 1
Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 1-317
Content:
Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function
Page iii
Copyright page
Page iv
List of Contributors
Pages v-vi
Preface
Pages vii-viii
Joan Y. Chiao
Controlled studies of chimpanzee cultural transmission Review Article
Pages 3-15
Victoria Horner, Frans B.M. de Waal
Brain in macro experiential context: biocultural co-construction of lifespan neurocognitive development Review Article
Pages 17-29
Shu-Chen Li
Anthropology and cultural neuroscience: creating productive intersections in parallel fields Review Article
Pages 31-42
R.A. Brown, R. Seligman
The brain in culture and culture in the brain: a review of core issues in neuroanthropology Review Article
Pages 43-64
Juan F. Domínguez D., E. Douglas Lewis, Robert Turner, Gary F. Egan
Cultural constraints on music perception and cognition Review Article
Pages 67-77
Steven J. Morrison, Steven M. Demorest
Culture and attention: evidence from brain and behavior Review Article
Pages 79-92
Sarah Ketay, Arthur Aron, Trey Hedden
Culture sculpts the perceptual brain Review Article
Pages 95-111
Joshua O. Goh, Denise C. Park
Neuropsychological assessment of African children: evidence for a universal brain/behavior omnibus within a coconstructivist paradigm Review Article
Pages 113-135
Michael J. Boivin, Bruno Giordani
Cultural influences on memory Review Article
Pages 137-150
Angela H. Gutchess, Allie Indeck
Numbers in the cultural brain Review Article
Pages 151-157
Yi-Yuan Tang, Yijun Liu
Cultural neurolinguistics Review Article
Pages 159-171
Chuansheng Chen, Gui Xue, Leilei Mei, Chunhui Chen, Qi Dong
Culture in the mind's mirror: how anthropology and neuroscience can inform a model of the neural substrate for cultural imitative learning Review Article
Pages 175-190
Elizabeth A. Reynolds Losin, Mirella Dapretto, Marco Iacoboni
The cultural neuroscience of person perception Review Article
Pages 191-201
Jonathan B. Freeman, Nicholas O. Rule, Nalini Ambady
Understanding the self: a cultural neuroscience approach Review Article
Pages 203-212
Shihui Han, Georg Northoff
Cultural effects on the neural basis of theory of mind Review Article
Pages 213-223
Chiyoko Kobayashi Frank, Elise Temple
Culture and social support: neural bases and biological impact Review Article
Pages 227-237
David K. Sherman, Heejung S. Kim, Shelley E. Taylor
Neuroeconomics: in search of the neural representation of brands Review Article
Pages 241-252
Michael Schaefer
“Neuroarchaeology”: exploring the links between neural and cultural plasticity Review Article
Pages 253-261
Lambros Malafouris
Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry Review Article
Pages 263-283
Suparna Choudhury, Laurence J. Kirmayer
Cultural neuroscience: a once and future discipline Review Article
Pages 287-304
Joan Y. Chiao
Subject Index
Pages 305-317
