Cultures differ in the ability to enhance affective neural responses.
Soc Neurosci
; 12(5): 594-603, 2017 10.
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ABSTRACT
The present study (N = 55) used an event-related potential paradigm to investigate whether cultures differ in the ability to upregulate affective responses. Using stimuli selected from the International Affective Picture System, we found that European-Americans (N = 29) enhanced central-parietal late positive potential (LPP) (400-800 ms post-stimulus) responses to affective stimuli when instructed to do so, whereas East Asians (N = 26) did not. We observed cultural differences in the ability to enhance central-parietal LPP responses for both positively and negativelyvalenced stimuli, and the ability to enhance these two types of responses was positively correlated for Americans but negatively for East Asians. These results are consistent with the notion that cultural variations in norms and values regarding affective expression and experiences shape how the brain regulates emotions.
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Asunto principal:
Percepción Visual
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Encéfalo
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Cultura
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Emociones
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
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Asia
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En
Revista:
Soc Neurosci
Año:
2017
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos