Understanding the self: a cultural neuroscience approach
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The self has been addressed extensively by philosophers and psychologists from different cultures. Recent cognitive neuroscience studies have uncovered neural substrates underlying the processing of different aspects of the self. As social psychologists have shown evidence for differences in self-construal styles between Western and East Asian cultures, recent transcultural neuroimaging research sought to find potential neural mechanisms mediating cultural specific self-related processing. The findings of transcultural neuroimaging research help to understand the culture-dependent nature of the self and its underlying neural substrates. This also sheds light on how to conceptualize the self in psychological and philosophical terms.
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Core self-awareness assessed by Damasio and colleagues is based on self-recognition tasks subserved by distributed neural networks involving frontal-temporal and cortical midline structures.
“Second, the “core” self-awareness assessed by Damasio and colleagues (Philippi et al., 2012; Damasio et al., 2013) is based on self-recognition tasks, which are subserved by distributed neural networks also involving the frontal–temporal network (Keenan et al., 2000) and cortical midline structures (Zhu et al., 2007; Han and Northoff, 2009).”
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- Authors
- Han, S., & Northoff, G.
- Affiliations
- Peking University (CN)
- Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Han, Shihui
- Northoff, Georg
- Venue
- Progress in Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2009
- Volume
- 178
- Pages
- 203-212
- ISSN
- 0079-6123 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1524917622
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.77
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Progress in brain research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- self, cultural neuroscience, self-construal, self-referential processing, philosophy of mind, cross-cultural comparison
- MeSH terms
- Anthropology, Cultural, Brain, Brain Mapping, Culture, Humans, Neuropsychology, Neurosciences, Psychophysiology, Self Concept, Cultural Diversity
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