Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Park, Denise C.
• Huang, Chih-Mao

Titel

Culture Wires the Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

Ist Teil von

• Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2010-07, Vol.5 (4), p.391-400

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There is clear evidence that sustained experiences may affect both brain structure and function. Thus, it is quite reasonable to posit that sustained exposure to a set of cultural experiences and behavioral practices will affect neural structure and function. The burgeoning field of cultural psychology has often demonstrated the subtle differences in the way individuals process information— differences that appear to be a product of cultural experiences. We review evidence that the collectivistic and individualistic biases of East Asian and Western cultures, respectively, affect neural structure and function. We conclude that there is limited evidence that cultural experiences affect brain structure and considerably more evidence that neural function is affected by culture, particularly activations in ventral visual cortex—areas associated with perceptual processing.