Evidence Of Cultural Neuroscience

Cultural neuroscience is a new interdisciplinary science that investigate how shaping the neurobiological mechanisms by the values, cultural practices and beliefs. Cultural neuroscience link to each other theories from various disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, neuroscience and population genetics and neurogenetics (Chiao and Ambady, 2007; Chiao et al., 2010). In this field, researchers are looking to better understand how genetic and cultural factors effects on the mind, brain and behavior, not only in lifetime but also in during different periods in evolutionary timescales (Chiao and Ambady, 2007). Repeated ceremonies reinforce some biological and neural pathways in a particular environment. Frequent cultural practices called neural pathways during doing cultural practices that ultimately lead to a change in the neural structure and function (Kitayama and Tompson, 2010).
Cortical-limbic pathways - such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex have critical role in regulate emotions and maintenance the psychological homeostasis. One of the remarkable findings in cultural neuroscience modulates neural response in the prefrontal regions as a function of cultural values is such as individualism and collectivism. One of the main findings of cultural psychology and cultural neuroscience is that findings due the neuroscience are not necessarily generalizable to all people. Most neuroimaging studies have used the snowball sampling, which often it have been include samples college students (Falk, 2013). Cultural differences lead to differences has been in cognitive processes (perception, attention,