Pub Date : 2016-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0034-7
Jessica LeClair, Joni Y. Sasaki, Keiko Ishii, Mizuho Shinada, Heejung S. Kim
{"title":"Gene–culture interaction: influence of culture and oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphism on loneliness","authors":"Jessica LeClair, Joni Y. Sasaki, Keiko Ishii, Mizuho Shinada, Heejung S. Kim","doi":"10.1007/s40167-016-0034-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0034-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"52 1","pages":"21 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74820007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-18DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0033-8
I. Stojcic, Luo Kewen, Xiaopeng Ren
{"title":"Does uncertainty avoidance keep charity away? comparative research between charitable behavior and 79 national cultures","authors":"I. Stojcic, Luo Kewen, Xiaopeng Ren","doi":"10.1007/s40167-016-0033-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0033-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"75 1 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72688234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0032-1
M. Russell, Takahiko Masuda, K. Hioki, A. Singhal
{"title":"Culture and social judgments: the importance of culture in Japanese and European Canadians’ N400 and LPC processing of face lineup emotion judgments","authors":"M. Russell, Takahiko Masuda, K. Hioki, A. Singhal","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0032-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0032-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"3 1","pages":"131 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79839837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-26DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0030-3
Minghui Liu, Changming Liu, Ying Zhu, Ruosi Wang, P. Rotshtein, J. Sui
{"title":"Self-related information interfere with task performances: a cross-cultural investigation","authors":"Minghui Liu, Changming Liu, Ying Zhu, Ruosi Wang, P. Rotshtein, J. Sui","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0030-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0030-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"7 1","pages":"112 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81789173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-14DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0031-2
Michael E. W. Varnum, Chris Blais, Ryan S Hampton, Gene A. Brewer
{"title":"Social class affects neural empathic responses","authors":"Michael E. W. Varnum, Chris Blais, Ryan S Hampton, Gene A. Brewer","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0031-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0031-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"23 1","pages":"122 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83250731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z
Pin-Hao A Chen, Dylan D Wagner, William M Kelley, Todd F Heatherton
Recent immigrants to another culture generally experience a period of acculturation during which they show self-construal changes. Here, we examine how this acculturation period alters brain activity associated with self-referential cognition. Twenty-seven native Chinese-speaking recent immigrants completed a trait-judgment task in which they judged whether a series of psychological traits applied to themselves and, separately, whether these traits applied to their mothers. Participants were scanned at two intervals: within the first two months of their arrival in the United States (Time 1), and also six months after the initial scan (Time 2). Results already revealed a significant self-vs.-mother differentiation at Time 1 in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). However, at time 2, this pattern diverged depending on whether immigrants became more or less like their original culture. That is to say, for immigrants who became less like Easterners, the self vs. mother difference remained, whereas for participants who became even more like Easterners, the self vs. mother difference in cortical midline structures disappeared. These findings support the notion that self-construal changes during the process of acculturation are reflected in the relative engagement of brain structures implicated in self-referential processing (i.e., MPFC and PCC) when judging traits with reference to oneself or a close other.
{"title":"ACTIVITY IN CORTICAL MIDLINE STRUCTURES IS MODULATED BY SELF-CONSTRUAL CHANGES DURING ACCULTURATION.","authors":"Pin-Hao A Chen, Dylan D Wagner, William M Kelley, Todd F Heatherton","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent immigrants to another culture generally experience a period of acculturation during which they show self-construal changes. Here, we examine how this acculturation period alters brain activity associated with self-referential cognition. Twenty-seven native Chinese-speaking recent immigrants completed a trait-judgment task in which they judged whether a series of psychological traits applied to themselves and, separately, whether these traits applied to their mothers. Participants were scanned at two intervals: within the first two months of their arrival in the United States (Time 1), and also six months after the initial scan (Time 2). Results already revealed a significant self-vs.-mother differentiation at Time 1 in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). However, at time 2, this pattern diverged depending on whether immigrants became more or less like their original culture. That is to say, for immigrants who became less like Easterners, the self vs. mother difference remained, whereas for participants who became even more like Easterners, the self vs. mother difference in cortical midline structures disappeared. These findings support the notion that self-construal changes during the process of acculturation are reflected in the relative engagement of brain structures implicated in self-referential processing (i.e., MPFC and PCC) when judging traits with reference to oneself or a close other.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"3 1","pages":"39-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33891487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-02-12DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0028-x
R. Tang, Yi-Yuan Tang
{"title":"Bilingualism, executive control and neuroplasticity","authors":"R. Tang, Yi-Yuan Tang","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0028-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0028-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"72 1","pages":"68 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73547602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-02-04DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0027-y
Asuka Murata, Jiyoung Park, I. Kovelman, Xiaosu Hu, S. Kitayama
{"title":"Culturally non-preferred cognitive tasks require compensatory attention: a functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) investigation","authors":"Asuka Murata, Jiyoung Park, I. Kovelman, Xiaosu Hu, S. Kitayama","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0027-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-015-0027-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"88 1","pages":"53 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77150417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-07DOI: 10.1007/s40167-014-0024-6
L. Hyde, S. Tompson, J. Creswell, E. Falk
{"title":"Cultural neuroscience: new directions as the field matures","authors":"L. Hyde, S. Tompson, J. Creswell, E. Falk","doi":"10.1007/s40167-014-0024-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-014-0024-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"474 1","pages":"75 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78117580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01Epub Date: 2015-03-25DOI: 10.1007/s40167-015-0029-9
Elizabeth A Reynolds Losin, Choong-Wan Woo, Anjali Krishnan, Tor D Wager, Marco Iacoboni, Mirella Dapretto
The acquisition of cultural beliefs and practices is fundamental to human societies. The psychological and neural mechanisms underlying cultural acquisition, however, are not well understood. Here we used brain imaging to investigate how others' physical and sociocultural attributes may influence imitative learning, a critical component of cultural acquisition. While undergoing fMRI, 17 European American young adults imitated models from three different racial groups performing novel hand gestures. Participants learned that half the models shared their political ideology and half did not. We found that the model's political ideology-a sociocultural characteristic devoid of any physical correlates-was sufficient to influence imitative accuracy, and that this effect was mediated by changes in feelings of similarity to the model. Furthermore, the relationship between the imitative model's political ideology and imitation accuracy was mediated by brain regions associated with imitation and its control, as well as mentalizing. Finally, comparing these new data with those from one of our previous studies revealed that knowledge of a model's political ideology reduces the influence of the model's race on feelings of similarity to the model and imitation accuracy, as well as activity in brain regions typically activated during imitation. Taken together, these findings suggest that (1) others' sociocultural characteristics influence imitative biases more so than their physical attributes, and (2) that neural systems associated with imitation, imitation control, and mentalizing contribute to this cultural learning process.
{"title":"Brain and psychological mediators of imitation: sociocultural versus physical traits.","authors":"Elizabeth A Reynolds Losin, Choong-Wan Woo, Anjali Krishnan, Tor D Wager, Marco Iacoboni, Mirella Dapretto","doi":"10.1007/s40167-015-0029-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40167-015-0029-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The acquisition of cultural beliefs and practices is fundamental to human societies. The psychological and neural mechanisms underlying cultural acquisition, however, are not well understood. Here we used brain imaging to investigate how others' physical and sociocultural attributes may influence imitative learning, a critical component of cultural acquisition. While undergoing fMRI, 17 European American young adults imitated models from three different racial groups performing novel hand gestures. Participants learned that half the models shared their political ideology and half did not. We found that the model's political ideology-a sociocultural characteristic devoid of any physical correlates-was sufficient to influence imitative accuracy, and that this effect was mediated by changes in feelings of similarity to the model. Furthermore, the relationship between the imitative model's political ideology and imitation accuracy was mediated by brain regions associated with imitation and its control, as well as mentalizing. Finally, comparing these new data with those from one of our previous studies revealed that knowledge of a model's political ideology reduces the influence of the model's race on feelings of similarity to the model and imitation accuracy, as well as activity in brain regions typically activated during imitation. Taken together, these findings suggest that (1) others' sociocultural characteristics influence imitative biases more so than their physical attributes, and (2) that neural systems associated with imitation, imitation control, and mentalizing contribute to this cultural learning process.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"3 2","pages":"93-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518786/pdf/nihms-675026.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40385700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}