Culture and neural frames of cognition and communication /

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Imprint:Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2011.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 314 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Language:English
Series:On thinking, 1867-4208
On Thinking.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8896991
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Other authors / contributors:Han, Shihui.
PoĢˆppel, Ernst, 1940-
ISBN:9783642154232 (e-book)
3642154239 (e-book)
9783642154225
Notes:"Based on the seventh Sino-German Workshop on Cognitive Neurosciences in Beijing in October 2008 ... organized by the Department of Psychology at Peking University, Benijing, China, and the Human Science Center of Munich University, Germany ..."--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Summary: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 p.
Other form:Print version: Culture and neural frames of cognition and communication. Heidelberg : Springer, c2011 9783642154225