Cultural differences in sensitivity to social context: Detecting affective incongruity using the N400

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-74

  Goto, Sharon G ^a   Yee, Alicia ^a   Lowenberg, Kelly ^a   Lewis, Richard S ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Culture; Emotion; Interdependent self construal; N400

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872586999     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2012.739202     Document Type: Article

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