The Sociocultural Brain A Cultural Neuroscience Approach to Human Nature 1st Edition by Shihui Han ISBN 019874319X 9780198743194

1. Cultural Diversity: From Behavior to Mind and Brain

• Diverse Human Behaviors: Focus on understanding the range of behaviors that emerge due to cultural influences and how they vary across societies.
• Culture: From Observation to Concept: Examines how culture is observed, interpreted, and conceptualized in the context of human behavior.
• Behind Cultural Differences in Behavior: Mental Processes: Explores the cognitive processes that account for variations in behavior across cultures.
• Behind Cultural Differences in Mind: Brain Activity: Investigates how cultural differences are reflected in brain activity and neurocognitive functions.
• Cultural Neuroscience: The emerging field that examines how cultural experiences shape the brain and cognitive functions, and vice versa.

2. Neural Process of Culturally Familiar Information

• Cultural Learning: Studies how individuals acquire cultural knowledge and behaviors through socialization and learning processes.
• Gesture: Analyzes the role of culturally specific gestures in communication and their neural processing.
• Music: Examines cultural influences on music perception and the neural mechanisms underlying this.
• Brand: Investigates how cultural factors shape consumer behavior and the neural responses to brand perception.
• Religious Knowledge: Focuses on how religious beliefs, practices, and symbols are processed in the brain across cultures.

3. Cultural Differences in Non-Social Neural Processes

• Neural Correlates of Cognition: Cultural Universality and Cultural Diversity: Studies both the universal and culturally specific neural mechanisms involved in cognitive processes.
• Visual Perception and Attention: Looks at how culture influences visual processing, attention, and perception.
• Memory: Investigates cultural differences in memory formation, retrieval, and recall.
• Causal Judgments: Focuses on how different cultures approach causality and decision-making.
• Math: Analyzes cultural differences in mathematical cognition and problem-solving.
• Semantic Relationship: Explores how meaning and language are processed differently across cultures.
• Decision Making: Examines how culture affects decision-making processes in the brain.
• Culture and Neurocognitive Style: Investigates how cultural context influences cognitive styles, such as holistic vs. analytical thinking.

4. Cultural Differences in Neurocognitive Processing of the Self

• Culture and Self-Concept: Examines how cultural norms shape individual’s perceptions of the self and identity.
• Cultural Differences in Neurocognitive Processing of Self-Face: Investigates how people from different cultures process their own faces and self-representation in the brain.
• Cultural Differences in Neurocognitive Processing During Self-Reflection: Focuses on how self-reflection varies in the brain across different cultural contexts.
• Religious Belief and Neural Correlates of Self-Reflection: Explores how religious beliefs shape neural responses to self-reflection.
• Neural Roots of Culturally Specific Self-Concept and Behavior: Looks at the neural foundations of how cultural beliefs shape self-concept and actions.

5. Cultural Differences in Neurocognitive Processing of Others

• Social Interaction in Cultural Contexts: Investigates how cultural context influences social interactions and relationships.
• Face: Studies cultural variations in facial recognition and processing in the brain.
• Facial Expression: Focuses on the perception and interpretation of facial expressions in different cultures.
• Empathy: Examines how cultural background influences empathetic responses and their neural basis.
• Emotion Regulation: Looks at how different cultures regulate and process emotions.
• Mental Attribution: Investigates cultural differences in attributing mental states, intentions, and behaviors to others.
• Social Status: Studies how cultural norms shape the perception of social hierarchy and status.
• Social Comparison: Focuses on how culture influences the way individuals compare themselves to others.
• Moral Judgment: Examines how moral decisions and judgments are influenced by culture and their neural correlates.

6. Cultural Priming on Cognition and Underlying Brain Activity

• Dynamic Behavior, Culture, and Brain: Explores how dynamic interactions between culture and behavior influence brain activity.
• Cultural Priming and Human Cognition: Studies how exposure to cultural cues can influence cognitive processes, even temporarily.
• Cultural Priming and Brain Activity: Investigates how cultural priming affects neural activity and brain function.
• Interaction of Temporary and Chronic Self-Construals on Brain Activity: Looks at how both transient and stable cultural self-construals affect brain processes.
• Cultural Frames for Brain Function: Explores how different cultural frameworks shape the way the brain processes information.

7. Gene-Culture Interaction on Human Behavior and the Brain

• Nature vs. Nurture: A Cultural Perspective: Examines the intersection of genetic and cultural influences on human behavior.
• Gene-Culture Coevolution: Investigates how genetic and cultural evolution have shaped each other over time.
• Gene-Culture Interaction on Psychological Traits and Behavioral Tendency: Studies how genetic predispositions interact with cultural factors to influence behavior.
• Genetic Influences on the Brain: Looks at how genetics shape brain structure and function.
• Gene-Culture Interaction on the Brain: Explores how gene-culture interactions influence brain activity and cognitive functions.
• Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Gene-Culture Interaction on the Brain: Investigates the neural mechanisms that mediate gene-culture interactions.

8. A Culture-Behavior-Brain-Loop Model of Human Development

• The Brain Stands Between Culture and Behavior: Explores how the brain mediates the relationship between culture and behavior.
• The CBB-Loop Model of Human Development: Introduces a model explaining how culture, behavior, and brain interact in human development.
• Genes and the CBB Loop: Investigates the role of genetics in the culture-behavior-brain loop.
• A CBB-Loop-Based Understanding of Human Nature: Provides an understanding of human nature through the lens of the CBB loop.
• Brain Changes in the Future: Predicts how future changes in brain science and culture will shape human development.

9. Implications of the Sociocultural Brain

• The Biosocial Nature of the Brain: Explores the brain’s role in both biological and social contexts.
• The Sociobiological Nature of Culture: Investigates how culture influences biological processes and vice versa.
• Education: Looks at how the interplay of culture, brain, and behavior impacts educational systems and learning.
• Cross-Cultural Communication and Conflict: Examines how cultural differences in brain processing affect communication and conflict resolution.
• Psychiatry: Explores the implications of cultural differences in brain processes for mental health and psychiatry.