Neuroscience in Intercultural Contexts

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Warnick, Jason E. (Editor), Landis, Dan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

This breakthrough volume brings together cultural neuroscience and intercultural relations in an expansive presentation. Its selected topics in reasoning, memory, and other key cognitive areas bridge the neuroscience behind culture-related phenomena with the complex social processes involved in seei...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Intergroup Relationship and Empathy for Others' Pain: A Social Neuroscience Approach
• Culture, Cognition, and Intercultural Relations
• The Neuroscience of Bilingualism: Cross-Linguistic Influences and Cognitive Effects
• Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes and its Consequences for International Relations
• Brain-As-Predictor Approach: An Alternative Way to Explore Acculturation Processes
• Implications of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research for Cross-Cultural Training
• Intercultural Relations and the Perceptual Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
• Cultural Influences on Social and Self-Relevant Memory
• How Social Dynamics Shape Our Understanding of Reality.