Concerns about cultural neurosciences: A critical analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 152-161

  Martínez Mateo, Marina ^a   Cabanis, Maurice ^b   Loebell, Nicole Cruz de Echeverría ^b   Krach, Sören ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural neuroscience; Differentialism; FMRI; Looping effect; Universalism

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; REVIEW; SOCIAL CHANGE; STEREOTYPY;

BRAIN; CULTURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSCIENCES; OXYGEN;

EID: 82855178833     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.05.006     Document Type: Review

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