Category Archives: Cultural Neuroscience

Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

This Handbook examines disparities in public health by highlighting recent theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience. It traces the interactions of cultural, biological, and environmental factors that create adverse physical and mental health conditions among populations, and investigates how … Continue reading →

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A Cultural Neuroscience approach to the Biosocial nature of the Human Brain

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Cultural neuroscience (CN) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the relationship between culture (e.g., value and belief systems and practices shared by groups) and human brain functions. In this review, we describe the origin, aims, and methods of CN as well as its … Continue reading →

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Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Current research on culture focuses on independence and interdependence and documents numerous East-West psychological differences, with an increasing emphasis placed on cognitive mediating mechanisms. Lost in this literature is a time-honored idea of culture as a collective process composed of cross-generationally … Continue reading →

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Theory and Methods in Cultural Neuroscience

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Cultural neuroscience is an emerging research discipline that investigates cultural variation in psychological, neural and genomic processes as a means of articulating the bidirectional relationship of these processes and their emergent properties. Research in cultural neuroscience integrates theory and methods … Continue reading →

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The Neuroscience of In-group Bias

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Racism and in-group favoritism is prevalent in our society and has been studied in Social Psychology for a long time. Recently it has become possible to investigate the neural mechanisms that underlie these in-group biases, and hence this review will give an … Continue reading →