Cultural neuroscience combines brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potentials with methods of social and cultural psychology to investigate whether and how cultures influence the neural mechanisms of perception, attention, emotion, social cognition, and other human cognitive processes. The findings of cultural neuroscience studies improve our understanding of the relation between human brain function and sociocultural contexts and help to reframe the “big question” of nature versus nurture. This book is organized so that two chapters provide general views of the relation between biological evolution, cultural evolution and recent cultural neuroscience studies, while other chapters focus on several aspects of human cognition that have been shown to be strongly influenced by sociocultural factors such as self-concept representation, language processes, emotion, time perception, and decision-making. The main goal of this work is to address how thinking actually takes place and how the underlying neural mechanisms are affected by culture and identity.
Author(s): Bruce E. Wexler (auth.), Shihui Han, Ernst Pöppel (eds.)
Series: On Thinking
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 314
Tags: Neurobiology; Cross Cultural Psychology; Neurosciences; Anthropology; Cognitive Psychology
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Neuroplasticity: Biological Evolution’s Contribution to Cultural Evolution....Pages 1-17
Cultural Neuroscience of Social Cognition....Pages 19-39
The Brain and Its Self: Concepts of Self and the Cortical Midline Structures....Pages 41-63
Self Identity in Sociocultural Contexts: Implications from Studies of Self-face Recognition....Pages 65-76
The Relation Between the Self and Others: A Transcultural Neuroimaging Approach....Pages 77-91
Unconscious Self-processing: Subconscious, Unintentional or Subliminal?....Pages 93-107
Brain, Behavior, and Culture: Insights from Cognition, Perception, and Emotion....Pages 109-122
Psychological Time, Time Perspective, Culture and Conflict Resolution....Pages 123-137
Co-creation Systems: Ma and Communication....Pages 139-152
Hearing Loss and Auditory Processing Disorders: Clinical and Experimental Perspectives....Pages 153-168
Broca’s Area: Linking Perception and Production in Language and Actions....Pages 169-184
Language Attrition and Identity....Pages 185-198
The Logic of Constellations: A Complementary Mode of Thinking that is Crucial for Understanding How Reality Actually Takes Place....Pages 199-213
Three Modes of Knowledge as Basis for Intercultural Cognition and Communication: A Theoretical Perspective....Pages 215-231
Two Modes of Thinking: Evidence from Cross-Cultural Psychology....Pages 233-247
Outcome Evaluation in Decision Making: ERP Studies....Pages 249-285
Mindfulness in Leadership: Does Being Mindful Enhance Leaders’ Business Success?....Pages 287-307
Back Matter....Pages 309-314
