Cultural neuroscience : cultural influences on brain function

Author(s)

• Chiao, Joan Y.

Bibliographic Information

Cultural neuroscience : cultural influences on brain function

edited by Joan Y. Chiao

（Progress in brain research, v. 178）

Elsevier, c2009

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

The chimpanzees' cultural capacities Biocultural co-construction of developmental plasticity across the lifespan Anthropology and cultural neuroscience: Creating productive intersections in parallel fields The Brain in Culture and Culture in the Brain: A Review of Core Issues in Neuroanthropology Cultural Constraints on Music Perception & Cognition Culture, Dopaminergic Genes, and ADHD Cultural and neural bases of object recognition across the lifespan Neuropsychological Assessment of African Children: Evidence for a Universal Basis to Cognitive Ability Cultural influences on memory Numbers in the cultural brain Cultural and neural bases of language Cultural and neural bases of imitation Cultural and neural bases of interpersonal perception Understanding the self: A cultural neuroscience approach Cultural effect on the neural basis of theory of mind Cultural neuroscience of emotion Cultural and neural bases of social support Neuromarketing - in search of the neural representation of brands Neuroarcheology: Exploring the links between neural and cultural plasticity Cultural psychiatry Cultural neuroscience: A once and future discipline

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB00737331
• ISBN:
  • 9780444533616
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: x, 317 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 612.823
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Neurosciences
  • LCSH : Neurosciences and the arts
  • LCSH : Cognition and culture
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00079015