Culture wires the Brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-400

  Park, Denise C ^a   Huang, Chih Mao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Context; Cultural differences; Eye movement; fMR A; fMRI; Object; Ventral visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955539479     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691610374591     Document Type: Review

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