Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Prog Brain Res. 2009;178:203-12. doi: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17814-7.
The self has been addressed extensively by philosophers and psychologists from different cultures. Recent cognitive neuroscience studies have uncovered neural substrates underlying the processing of different aspects of the self. As social psychologists have shown evidence for differences in self-construal styles between Western and East Asian cultures, recent transcultural neuroimaging research sought to find potential neural mechanisms mediating cultural specific self-related processing. The findings of transcultural neuroimaging research help to understand the culture-dependent nature of the self and its underlying neural substrates. This also sheds light on how to conceptualize the self in psychological and philosophical terms.
自我一直是不同文化背景的哲学家和心理学家广泛研究的课题。最近的认知神经科学研究揭示了自我处理不同方面的神经基础。正如社会心理学家所证明的，西方和东亚文化之间存在自我建构风格的差异，最近的跨文化神经影像学研究试图寻找潜在的神经机制来调节文化特有的自我相关加工。跨文化神经影像学研究的发现有助于理解自我的文化依赖性及其潜在的神经基础。这也揭示了如何用心理和哲学的术语来概念化自我。
