Talk:Cultural neuroscience

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I think it would be helpful if this article would make it clear that the term "cultural neuroscience" has come into use only very recently, with the earliest publications dating back to 2006 or 2007. It would also be useful to point out that the literature in the field consists of about two dozen papers at this point. Finally it would be useful to explain who invented the term, if that is possible. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 15:59, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I would be happy to add something about how this field emerged in the mid 2000s but simply searching for papers and finding noting prior to 2006 would be considered original research. Can someone point me towards a reputable independent source that gives this information? Likewise for the origin of the term. Andrew Hennigan (talk) 14:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

I think the only viable approach is to search for things that explicitly use the phrase "cultural neuroscience", and see how they themselves describe the origins of the field. Anything else, as you say, would be original research. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:52, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

I like the sounds of the article, but I find that the first paragraph is more of a question about your own beliefs rather than learning about the topic you are speaking about. It may not be intentional but I found as a reader that if you want to learn about something, you should not ask questions but more expand and develop details to the reader to question about the article, not read questions. Other than that it looks great =) (Evoken Lies (talk) 18:10, 16 November 2011 (UTC))

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How is it still unanswerable on how culture effects the brain? And how the brain affects culture? According to one study it proved that the minds of the non religious and the religious react completely different on certain occasions.Val.delrio (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2016 (UTC) @Alfgarciamora: Val.delrio (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

@Val.delrio: A good start, Valerie, but still a bit basic as it is now. It would have been good to include the actual article reference that you are mentioning. Since people all over the world are adding to this article, they will want to know what, exactly, you are referencing. Alfgarciamora (talk) 11:57, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Hey so I just wanted to let you know about some sources I found I plan on using for editing this section:

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@Alfgarciamora:

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Does anyone else find this totally exhausting?

Cultural neuroscience is a field of research that focuses on the interrelation between a human's

• cultural environment
• neurobiological systems

The field incorporates perspectives from:

• anthropology
• psychology
• cognitive neuroscience

to study sociocultural influences on human behaviors.

Such impacts on behavior are often measured using various neuroimaging methods

• through which cross-cultural variability in neural activity can be examined

Cultural neuroscientists study cultural variation in:

• mental
• neural
• genomic

processes as a means of articulating:

• bidirectional relationship of these processes
• their emergent properties

using a variety of methods.

Researchers in cultural neuroscience are motivated by two fundamentally intriguing, yet still unanswered, questions on the origins of human nature and human diversity:

• how do cultural traits — values, beliefs, practices
  • shape
    • neurobiology — genetic and neural processes
    • behavior
• how do neurobiological mechanisms — genetic and neural processes
  • facilitate the emergence and transmission of cultural traits?

The idea that complex behavior results from the dynamic interaction of genes and cultural environment is not new.

Cultural neuroscience represents a novel empirical approach to demonstrating bidirectional interactions between

• culture
• biology

by integrating

• theory
• methods

from

• cultural psychology
• neuroscience
• neurogenetics

Similar to other interdisciplinary fields such as:

• social neuroscience
• cognitive neuroscience
• affective neuroscience
• neuroanthropology

cultural neuroscience aims to explain a given mental phenomenon in terms of a synergistic product of

• mental
• neural
• genetic events

In particular, cultural neuroscience shares common research goals with:

• social neuroscientists examining how neurobiological mechanisms — mirror neurons
  • facilitate cultural transmission — imitative learning
• neuroanthropologists examining how embedded culture
  • as captured by cross-species comparison and ethnography
• is related to brain function.

Cultural neuroscience also shares intellectual goals with critical neuroscience, a field of inquiry that scrutinizes the

• social
• cultural
• economic
• political
  • contexts
  • assumptions

that underlie behavioral and brain science research as it is practiced today.

Research in cultural neuroscience has:

• practical relevance
  • transcultural psychiatry
  • business
  • technology
• broader implications
  • global public policy
    • population health disparities
    • bioethics
    • globalization
    • immigration
    • interethnic ideology
    • international relations

— MaxEnt 14:40, 20 February 2023 (UTC)