Cultural differences in human brain activity: A quantitative meta-analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 293-300

  Han, Shihui ^a   Ma, Yina ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Meta analysis; Neuroimaging; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DORSAL LATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX; DORSAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; INSULA; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); KOREAN (PEOPLE); LATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX; LINGUAL GYRUS; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL AFFECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; THEORY OF MIND; VENTRAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84903592885     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.062     Document Type: Article

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