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Cultural Neuroscience of the Self: Understanding Social Grounding of the Brain| old_uid | 9404 |
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| title | Cultural Neuroscience of the Self: Understanding Social Grounding of the Brain |
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| start_date | 2010/12/10 |
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| schedule | 12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle C |
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| summary | Cultural neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of research that investigates interrelations among culture, mind, and the brain. Drawing on both the growing body of scientific evidence on cultural variation in psychological processes and the recent development of social and cognitive neuroscience, this emerging field of research aspires to understand how culture as an amalgam of values, meanings, conventions, and artifacts that constitute daily social realities might interact with the mind and its underlying brain pathways of each individual member of the culture. In this talk, following a brief review of studies that demonstrate the surprising degree to which brain processes are malleably shaped by cultural tools and practices, I discuss cultural variation in brain processes involved in self-representations, cognition, emotion, and motivation. I then propose 1) that primary values of culture such as independence and interdependence are reflected in the compositions of cultural tasks (i.e., daily routines designed to accomplish the cultural values) and, further, 2) that active and sustained engagement in these tasks yields culturally patterned neural activities of the brain, thereby laying the ground for the embodied construction of the self and identity. Implications for research on culture and the brain are discussed. |
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| responsibles | Boussidan |
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