Culture and neural frames of cognition and communication

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 influencethe 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 versusnurture. This book is organized so that two chapters provide general views ofthe 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, timeperception, and decision-making. The main goal of this work is to address howthinking actually takes place and how the underlying neural mechanisms are affected by culture and identity. Discusses the cultural influences on human cognition and the underlying neural mechanisms Gives general views of the relation between biological evolution and cultural evolution and recent cultural neuroscience studies Focuses on aspects of human cognition that have been shown to be strongly influenced by sociocultural factors

• ISBN: 978-3-642-15422-5
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 314
• Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés