Accessible cultural mind-set modulates default mode activity: Evidence for the culturally situated brain

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-216

  Wang, Chenbo ^a   Oyserman, Daphna ^b   Liu, Qiang ^c   Li, Hong ^c   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culture; Default mode; fMRI; Resting state; Self construal priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REST; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876137489     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2013.775966     Document Type: Article

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