Current researchers mostly agree that the self consists of both bodily and non-bodily
environmental information. The neural mechanism underlying the integration of this …

Cultural neuroscience (CN) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the relationship
between culture (eg, value and belief systems and practices shared by groups) and human …

Psychologists have been trying to understand differences in cognition and behavior
between East Asian and Western cultures within a single cognitive framework such as …

Psychiatry has invested its hopes in neuroscience as a path to understanding mental
disorders and developing more effective treatments and ultimately cures. Recently, the US …

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control cognition. Because young children often
provide inaccurate metacognitive judgments when prompted to do so verbally, it has long …

Increasing evidence suggests that cultural influences on brain activity are associated with
multiple cognitive and affective processes. These findings prompt an integrative framework …

The human brain responds more strongly to racial ingroup than outgroup individuals' pain.
This racial ingroup bias varies across individuals and has been attributed to social …

Cultural differences exist in the use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies, but the focus to
date has been on intrapersonal ER strategies such as cognitive reappraisal. An emerging …

Highlights•Self-construals mediate cultural group differences in brain activity.•Priming
interdependent or independent self-construals modulates brain activity.•Self-construals …

Narratives are an important component of culture and play a central role in transmitting
social values. Little is known, however, about how the brain of a listener/reader processes …