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20 - Cultural Neuroscience Basis of Intercultural Training and Education

from Part IV - New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intercultural Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Shihui Han  and
Ilari Erik Mäkelä
Edited by
Dan Landis  and
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Dan Landis
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Summary

Economic globalization brings increasing demands and opportunities for intercultural training and education that produce novel consequences on people’s mind, behavior, and life quality. Why and how do intercultural training and education change mind and behavior? This chapter aims to address these issues from a cultural neuroscience perspective. By reviewing recent brain imaging findings of East Asian/Western cultural differences in neural underpinnings of cognition and emotion, we discuss the neural basis for understanding intercultural training and education by examining changes of functional brain activity underlying cognitive and affective processes. We propose a theoretical analysis of intercultural training and education based on the culture-behavior-brain loop model of human development. Future issues related to intercultural training and education are discussed.

Keywords

cultural neurosciencebrain imagingcognitionemotionintercultural training
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Training , pp. 601 - 616
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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