Cultural neuroscience : cultural influences on brain function / edited by Joan Y. Chiao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chiao, Joan Y.

Series:

Progress in brain research ; v. 178.

Progress in brain research ; v. 178

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences.

Neurosciences and the arts.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 o

Contents:

Front cover; Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents; Section I. Conceptual Foundations of Cultural Neuroscience; Chapter 1. Controlled studies of chimpanzee cultural transmission; Introduction; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Brain in macro experiential context: biocultural co-construction of lifespan neurocognitive development; Introduction; Co-constructive views of brain development and functioning; Initial evidence of biocultural co-construction of neurocognitive functioning

Future research directions and conclusionAcknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Anthropology and cultural neuroscience: creating productive intersections in parallel fields; Introduction; Sociocultural construction of emotion; Dominance, power, and social hierarchy; Embodiment of social knowledge; Ritual; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. The brain in culture and culture in the brain: a review of core issues in neuroanthropology; Introduction; The brain in culture: how the brain generates culture; Culture in the brain: how culture influences brain function

Concluding remarksReferences; Section II. Cultural Neuroscience of Attention and Perception; Chapter 5. Cultural constraints on music perception and cognition; Foundations of music enculturation; Interacting with complex musical structures; Culture and musical memory; Future directions; References; Chapter 6. Culture and attention: evidence from brain and behavior; Behavioral studies of attention; Neuroscience of attention and object processing; Conclusion; References; Section III. Cultural Neuroscience of Cognition; Chapter 7. Culture sculpts the perceptual brain; Introduction

Cultural differences in perception and attention to objects and contextsCultural differences in ventral visual brain function; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8. Neuropsychological assessment of African children: evidence for a universal brainsolbehavior omnibus within a coconstructivist paradigm; Four models on the relationship between cognitive ability and culture; The coconstructivist approach to biocultural interactionism; Persisting neuropsychological impairment from cerebral malaria in Ugandan children; The sensitivity of dynamic testing measures to brainsolbehavior integrity

Brain plasticity and the use of computerized cognitive rehabilitation therapyCross-cultural neuropsychological findings comparing sickle-cell disease to cerebral malaria; Sensitivity of the working memory domain to HIV; Sensitivity of the motor development domain to HIV; HIV effects on executive functioning in American and European children; Using HIV to establish a universal basis to cognitive ability; Using quality of home environment to establish a universal basis to cognitive ability; Evidence for biogenetic arrays linked to attention

The use of MRI imaging with cross-cultural neuropsychology to study attention in Malawian children

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612381041

9781282381049

1282381040

9780080952215

0080952216

OCLC:

608498968