PSYC14H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Grey Matter, Cerebral Hemisphere, White Matter
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Self-related neural activity in response to different situational and relational stimuli seems to parallel the findings from behavioural studies. Religious differences may also be implicated in neural representations of self-processes. Another study showed that culturally incongruent self-construal priming (i. e. , independent self to chinese and interdependent self to british) weakened the typical culture-specific pattern on the anterior n2 component. In a study with bicultural participants, priming western cultural symbols led to increased neural differentiation of close others from the self in the vmpfc, while priming chinese cultural symbols decreased differentiation. Cultural differences in cognition can be broadly organized according to two main systems of thought: analytic thinking, which tends to be more prevalent in north american and western. In number processing, people from two different cultures may arrive at the same response when given the same numerical task, yet the psychological processes leading to that response may differ from each other.
