Transcultural differences in brain activation patterns during theory of mind (ToM) task performance in Japanese and Caucasian participants

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 615-626

  Koelkebeck, Katja ^a   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^b   Kawada, Ryousaku ^b   Miyata, Jun ^b   Saze, Teruyasu ^b   Ubukata, Shiho ^b   Itakura, Shoji ^b   Kanakogi, Yasuhiro ^b   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Pedersen, Anya ^a   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^b   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^b   Takahashi, Hidehiko ^b   Murai, Toshiya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fMRI; MPFC; Sociocultural background; Theory of mind; Transcultural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84857388512     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2011.620763     Document Type: Article

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