ABSTRACT
Cultural neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that integrates theory and methods from anthropology, cultural psychology, neuroscience, and genetics to understand diversity in human behavior across multiple time scales. Action-based cultural learning may be shaped by environmental constraints, such as geographic terrain and resource availability. Cultural priming, an empirical method within cultural and social psychology, has shown that cultural values and beliefs can be thought of as mindsets or cognitive styles that are brought to mind with minimal external information. Human neuroscience has focused primarily on understanding how the human brain gives rise to behavior and how genes influence brain processes in the production of behavior. Advances in cultural neuroscience theory and methods have led to a growth in novel questions that can be addressed in the field with a range of approaches. Future research in cultural neuroscience may illuminate the role that culture can play in buffering neurobiological mechanisms of emotion and social behavior.
