• Culture and brain
  • Neuroanthropology
  • Culture and language
  • Mismeasuring "race"
  • Cross-cultural understanding
How Different Cultures Shape the Brain
The Daily Beast
West Brain, East Brain
What a difference culture makes.
Feb 17, 2010 

Cultural Neuroscience and the Collective Good 
YouTube
Joan Chiao, Northwestern University
January 23, 2010

Your brain on culture
The burgeoning field of cultural neuroscience is finding that culture influences brain development, and perhaps vice versa.
By Beth Azar
Monitor on Psychology
November 2010

Culture affects reasoning, categorization
A Northwestern University professor finds that people's culturally shaped perceptions have profound effects on cross-cultural research.
By Zak Stambor
Monitor on Psychology
November 2005

Culture wires the brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective
ScienceDaily 
Where you grow up can have a big impact on the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and even how your brain works.  
Aug. 3, 2010

Culture Influences Brain Cells: Brain's Mirror Neurons Swayed By Ethnicity And Culture 
ScienceDaily 
The brain's mirror neuron network responds differently depending on whether we are looking at someone who shares our culture, or someone who doesn't. 
July 23, 2007

Does Language Shape What We Think?
Scientific American

How Language Shapes Thought
Scientific American
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Culture like Relativity - Neuroanthropology
From blogs.plos.org - March 9, 2015
One of the prominent ways to think about culture is as a system of symbols or beliefs. For example, Clifford Geertz wrote in 1973: Believing, with Max Weber
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Why People With Multicultural Experience Are More Creative
From www.fastcompany.com - March 9, 2015
A person who has immersed themselves in another culture has the openness and cognitive flexibility to make your organization more creative.
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How creative are you? Study shows culture impacts creativity
From phys.org - January 27, 2015
With the "creative class" on the rise, many businesses are trying to capitalize on imagination and innovation. But when it comes to creative juices, some societies have a faster flow than others.
Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
May 7, 2013
A study of people in 40 countries illustrates long-established changes in Europe's population. Going back a few thousand years, researchers discovered just how interconnected human ancestry is.
Race and Consequence: “Reality” and Social Constructs
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Race Reconciled Re-Debunks Race
Whiteness is a project, not a skin tone
Neuroscience and Race
PLoS Blogs (blog)
*What role does neuroscience play in reinforcing or questioning the use of race in science and society?
Social Construction of Race = Conservative Goldmine
via Living Anthropologically 
by Jason Antrosio on 8/24/12
Facial expressions 'not global'
By Judith Burns 
Science reporter, BBC News14 August 2009
A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial expressions differently.