Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Neuroplasticity: Biological Evolution’s Contribution to Cultural Evolution

   • Bruce E. Wexler

   Pages 1-17

3. Cultural Neuroscience of Social Cognition

   • Joan Y. Chiao, Genna M. Bebko

   Pages 19-39

4. The Brain and Its Self: Concepts of Self and the Cortical Midline Structures

   • Georg Northoff

   Pages 41-63

5. Self Identity in Sociocultural Contexts: Implications from Studies of Self-face Recognition

   • Shihui Han, Yina Ma, Jie Sui

   Pages 65-76

6. The Relation Between the Self and Others: A Transcultural Neuroimaging Approach

   • Li Zhang, Ying Zhu, Shihui Han

   Pages 77-91

7. Unconscious Self-processing: Subconscious, Unintentional or Subliminal?

   • Haiyan Geng, Shan Xu

   Pages 93-107

8. Brain, Behavior, and Culture: Insights from Cognition, Perception, and Emotion

   • Nicholas O. Rule, Jonathan B. Freeman, Nalini Ambady

   Pages 109-122

9. Psychological Time, Time Perspective, Culture and Conflict Resolution

   • Dan Zakay, Dida Fleisig

   Pages 123-137

10. Co-creation Systems: Ma and Communication

    • Yoshihiro Miyake

    Pages 139-152

11. Hearing Loss and Auditory Processing Disorders: Clinical and Experimental Perspectives

    • Elzbieta Szelag, Henryk Skarzynski, Andrzej Senderski, Monika Lewandowska

    Pages 153-168

12. Broca’s Area: Linking Perception and Production in Language and Actions

    • Eleonora Rossi, Marleen Schippers, Christian Keysers

    Pages 169-184

13. Language Attrition and Identity

    • Monika S. Schmid

    Pages 185-198

14. The Logic of Constellations: A Complementary Mode of Thinking that is Crucial for Understanding How Reality Actually Takes Place

    • Albrecht von Müller

    Pages 199-213

15. Three Modes of Knowledge as Basis for Intercultural Cognition and Communication: A Theoretical Perspective

    • Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao

    Pages 215-231

16. Two Modes of Thinking: Evidence from Cross-Cultural Psychology

    • Britt Glatzeder

    Pages 233-247

17. Outcome Evaluation in Decision Making: ERP Studies

    • Yue-Jia Luo, Shi-Yue Sun, Xiao-Qin Mai, Ruo-Lei Gu, Hui-Jun Zhang

    Pages 249-285

18. Mindfulness in Leadership: Does Being Mindful Enhance Leaders’ Business Success?

    • Sebastian Sauer, Niko Kohls

    Pages 287-307

19. Back Matter

    Pages 309-314

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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.

• cognition
• culture
• functional brain imaging
• neuroscience, cultural

• Dept. Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China, People's Republic

  Shihui Han

• Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

  Ernst Pöppel

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