Arizona State University, United States.
Biol Psychol. 2021 May;162:108087. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108087. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
Cultural neuroscience research has provided substantial evidence that culture shapes the brain by providing systematically different sets of experiences. However, cultures are ever-changing in response to the physical and social environment. In the present paper, we integrate theories and methods from cultural neuroscience with the emerging body of research on cultural change and suggest several ways in which the two fields can inform each other. First, we propose that the cultural change perspective helps us reexamine what is meant by culturally typical experiences, which are shaped by the dynamic interaction between cultural norms, values, meanings, and other environmental constraints on behavior. It also allows us to make predictions about the variability/stability of cultural neural differences over time. Then, we discuss how methods used in cultural change research may be applied to cultural neuroscience research and vice versa. We end with a "blue sky vision" for a neuroscience of cultural change.
文化神经科学的研究提供了充分的证据表明，文化通过提供系统的不同经验来塑造大脑。然而，文化会随着物理和社会环境的变化而不断变化。在本文中，我们将文化神经科学的理论和方法与文化变化的新兴研究领域相结合，并提出了这两个领域相互借鉴的几种方式。首先，我们提出，文化变化的视角有助于我们重新审视典型文化经验的含义，这些经验是由文化规范、价值观、意义以及其他对行为的环境限制之间的动态相互作用所塑造的。它还使我们能够对文化神经差异随时间的可变性/稳定性做出预测。然后，我们讨论了如何将文化变化研究中使用的方法应用于文化神经科学研究，反之亦然。最后，我们对文化变化的神经科学提出了一个“蓝天愿景”。
