Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation
Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation
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DOI：
10.1162/jocn.2009.21187
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Ambady, Nalini
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作者：
Adams, Reginald B., Jr.;Rule, Nicholas O.;Ambady, Nalini
推断他人想法、意图和感受的能力被认为是人类独有的。在过去的几十年里，这种非凡的能力吸引了哲学家、灵长类动物学家、临床和发展心理学家、人类学家、社会心理学家和认知神经科学家的注意。大多数人都会同意，推理他人心理状态的能力是天生的，对于成功的人类社会互动至关重要。然而，这种能力是否受到文化的调节，在行为和神经层面上都是完全未知的。在这里，我们提供了第一个行为和神经的证据内文化的优势（更好的性能，为相同的文化与其他文化）在精神状态解码的样本中的日本本土和白色美国参与者。我们使用功能性磁共振成像检查了这种文化内优势的神经相关性，揭示了两个文化组在相同文化与其他文化的精神状态解码过程中双侧后上级颞沟的募集更大。这些研究结果提供了初步的支持文化一致性的神经结构subserving高层次的精神状态推理，以及其差异招聘的基础上的文化群体成员。
The ability to infer others' thoughts, intentions, and feelings is regarded as uniquely human. Over the last few decades, this remarkable ability has captivated the attention of philosophers, primatologists, clinical and developmental psychologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. Most would agree that the capacity to reason about others' mental states is innately prepared, essential for successful human social interaction. Whether this ability is culturally tuned, however, remains entirely uncharted on both the behavioral and neural levels. Here we provide the first behavioral and neural evidence for an intracultural advantage (better performance for same- vs. other-culture) in mental state decoding in a sample of native Japanese and white American participants. We examined the neural correlates of this intracultural advantage using fMRI, revealing greater bilateral posterior superior temporal sulci recruitment during same- versus other-culture mental state decoding in both cultural groups. These findings offer preliminary support for cultural consistency in the neurological architecture subserving high-level mental state reasoning, as well as its differential recruitment based on cultural group membership.