TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martinez Mateo, Marina
A1  - Cabanis, Maurice
A1  - Cruz de Echeverría Loebell, Nicole
A1  - Krach, Sören
T1  - Concerns about cultural neurosciences : a critical analysis
T2  - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews
N2  - Ten years ago, neuroscientists began to study cultural phenomena by using functional MRI. Since then the number of publications in this field, termed cultural neuroscience (CN), has tremendously increased. In these studies, particular concepts of culture are implied, but rarely explicitly discussed. We argue that it is necessary to make these concepts a topic of debate in order to unravel the foundations of CN. From 40 fMRI studies we extracted two strands of reasoning: models investigating universal mechanisms for the formation of cultural groups and habits and, models assessing differences in characteristics among cultural groups. Both strands simplify culture as an inflexible set of traits and specificities. We question this rigid understanding of culture and highlight its hidden evaluative nature.
KW  - Cultural neuroscience
KW  - Universalism
KW  - Differentialism
KW  - Looping effect
KW  - fMRI
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37042
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-370426
SN  - 0149-7634
SN  - 1873-7528
N1  - © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
SP  - 152
EP  - 161
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -