title: Culture: by the brain and in the brain?
abstract: Since the 1990s, several disciplines have emerged at the interface between neuroscience and the social and human sciences. For the most part, they aim at capturing the commonalities that underlay the heterogeneity of human behaviors and experiences. Neuroanthropology and cultural neuroscience, or the "neurodisciplines of culture," appear different, since their goal is to understand specificity rather than commonality and to address how cultural differences are inscribed in the brain. After offering an overview of these disciplines, and of their relation to endeavors such as cultural psychology and social neuroscience, this article discusses some of the most representative studies in the area in order to explore in which ways they are relevant for an understanding of culture.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Instituto de Medicina Social/ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Pavilhão João Lyra Filho, 7º andar 20550-013 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil. fjortega2@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: Professor, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies; Centro de Historia de la Ciencia/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Carrer San Magrans, s.n. 08193 - Bellaterra - Barcelona - Spain. fernando.vidal@icrea.cat.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vidal
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history; D003469:Culture; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history