Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function (eBook)

Juan Y. Chiao (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
328 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-095221-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function 4
Copyright page 5
List of Contributors 6
Preface 8
Contents 10
Section I. Conceptual Foundations of Cultural Neuroscience 12
Chapter 1. Controlled studies of chimpanzee cultural transmission 14
Introduction 14
Conclusion 24
Acknowledgments 24
References 24
Chapter 2. Brain in macro experiential context: biocultural co-construction of lifespan neurocognitive development 28
Introduction 28
Co-constructive views of brain development and functioning 30
Initial evidence of biocultural co-construction of neurocognitive functioning 34
Future research directions and conclusion 36
Acknowledgments 37
References 37
Chapter 3. Anthropology and cultural neuroscience: creating productive intersections in parallel fields 42
Introduction 42
Sociocultural construction of emotion 43
Dominance, power, and social hierarchy 45
Embodiment of social knowledge 47
Ritual 48
Conclusion 50
Acknowledgements 37
References 37
Chapter 4. The brain in culture and culture in the brain: a review of core issues in neuroanthropology 54
Introduction 55
The brain in culture: how the brain generates culture 56
Culture in the brain: how culture influences brain function 67
Concluding remarks 71
References 72
Section II. Cultural Neuroscience of Attention and Perception 76
Chapter 5. Cultural constraints on music perception and cognition 78
Foundations of music enculturation 79
Interacting with complex musical structures 81
Culture and musical memory 82
Future directions 85
References 86
Chapter 6. Culture and attention: evidence from brain and behavior 90
Behavioral studies of attention 92
Neuroscience of attention and object processing 96
Conclusion 100
References 102
Section III. Cultural Neuroscience of Cognition 104
Chapter 7. Culture sculpts the perceptual brain 106
Introduction 106
Cultural differences in perception and attention to objects and contexts 107
Cultural differences in ventral visual brain function 110
Conclusion 119
References 120
Chapter 8. Neuropsychological assessment of African children: evidence for a universal brainsolbehavior omnibus within a coconstructivist paradigm 124
Four models on the relationship between cognitive ability and culture 124
The coconstructivist approach to biocultural interactionism 125
Persisting neuropsychological impairment from cerebral malaria in Ugandan children 127
The sensitivity of dynamic testing measures to brainsolbehavior integrity 128
Brain plasticity and the use of computerized cognitive rehabilitation therapy 130
Cross-cultural neuropsychological findings comparing sickle-cell disease to cerebral malaria 132
Sensitivity of the working memory domain to HIV 133
Sensitivity of the motor development domain to HIV 134
HIV effects on executive functioning in American and European children 134
Using HIV to establish a universal basis to cognitive ability 134
Using quality of home environment to establish a universal basis to cognitive ability 136
Evidence for biogenetic arrays linked to attention 137
The use of MRI imaging with cross-cultural neuropsychology to study attention in Malawian children 138
A summary of the utility of omnibus as a modeling construct within coconstructivism 138
Summarizing how cross-cultural neuropsychology supports coconstructivism as a powerful paradigm in understanding intelligence and culture 141
Overview and conclusion 142
Abbreviations 142
Acknowledgments 143
References 143
Chapter 9. Cultural influences on memory 148
Overview 148
Organization of long-term memory 149
Specificity of memory 152
Influence of culture on memory: neural and behavioral findings 153
Conclusion 158
Acknowledgments 158
References 158
Chapter 10. Numbers in the cultural brain 162
Language 163
Educational systems 165
Arithmetic strategies 166
Genetic and early environmental factors 167
Future directions 167
Acknowledgments 168
References 168
Chapter 11. Cultural neurolinguistics 170
The language brain 171
Major differences in language systems 172
Different neural networks underlying different languages 173
Second-language learning 175
Integrating culture into neurolinguistics 176
Acknowledgments 179
References 179
Section IV. Cultural Neuroscience of Social Cognition 184
Chapter 12. Culture in the mind’s mirror: how anthropology and neuroscience can inform a model of the neural substrate for cultural imitative learning 186
Introduction 186
Section I: cultural learning and imitation . theory and behavior 187
Section II: candidate neural mechanisms of imitative cultural learning 191
Section III: a model of the neural architecture of cultural imitative learning and future directions 196
Conclusion 197
Acknowledgments 198
References 198
Chapter 13. The cultural neuroscience of person perception 202
Perception as cultural affordance 203
Cultural impact on nonsocial perception 204
Cultural influences on perceiving other people 206
Conclusions 209
Abbreviations 210
Acknowledgment 210
References 210
Chapter 14. Understanding the self: a cultural neuroscience approach 214
Introduction 214
Neural correlates of self-related processing 216
Cultural influence on neural substrates of self-related processing 218
Conclusion 221
Acknowledgments 221
References 221
Chapter 15. Cultural effects on the neural basis of theory of mind 224
Introduction 224
Behavioral explorations of cultural variation in theory of mind development 225
Brain imaging explorations of neural correlates of theory of mind 226
Putative neural correlates of theory of mind: universal or culture dependentquest 226
Limitations and future directions in cultural neuroimaging studies of theory of mind 229
Conclusion 230
Acknowledgments 231
References 231
Section V. Cultural Neuroscience of Emotion and Well Being 236
Chapter 16. Culture and social support: neural bases and biological impact 238
Cultural factors affecting the likelihood of seeking social support 239
Cultural differences in attention to context 239
Cultural differences in the importance of expression 241
Culture and different forms of social support 243
Neural pathways for social support effects 244
Genes X culture interactions in social support use 245
Conclusions 246
Acknowledgments 246
References 246
Section VI. Applications of Cultural Neuroscience 250
Chapter 17. Neuroeconomics: in search of the neural representation of brands 252
Introduction: brands as cultural symbols 252
Investigating brand-related behavior with neuroimaging tools 253
Brands as somatic markers 253
Neural representation of favorite brands 254
Secondary inducers of reward: social incentives 256
Brain responses to luxury brands 257
Ethical aspects 259
Conclusion and future directions 261
Acknowledgments 261
References 261
Chapter 18. ‘‘Neuroarchaeology’’: exploring the links between neural and cultural plasticity 264
Introduction: what is neuroarchaeologyquest 264
Foundational issues: theoretical and methodological challenges 265
Steps to a ‘‘neuroarchaeology of mind’’: bridging the gap between neural and cultural plasticity 267
Some concluding thoughts 269
Acknowledgments 270
References 270
Chapter 19. Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry 274
Introduction 274
Scanning ‘‘culture’’ and generating identities 276
Essentializing culture in the brain 278
Locating culture in the social world 279
Culture and psychopathology 282
Culture and developmental psychopathology: the example of conduct disorder (CD) and aggression in adolescence 284
Conclusion 288
References 290
Section VII. Conclusion 296
Chapter 20. Cultural neuroscience: a once and future discipline 298
Introduction 298
What is cultural neurosciencequest 300
Why study cultural influences on brain functionquest 301
Theory and methods in cultural neuroscience 301
Cultural influences on brain function: progress in cultural neuroscience 305
Implications of cultural neuroscience for basic and applied research 311
Cultural neuroscience as a once and future discipline 312
Acknowledgments 312
References 313
Subject Index 316

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-095221-6 / 0080952216
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-095221-5 / 9780080952215