Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication

Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9783642154232
ISBN-13 : 3642154239
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Book Synopsis Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication by : Shihui Han

Download or read book Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication written by Shihui Han and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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