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Culture Wires The Brain
More evidence of the BioPsychoSocial model for development is what needs to be studied.
Patterns exists and influence at the level of self, Self, Culture/Enviornment, and the relationship between the indiviual and the environment. We are working on a series right now exploring the meta-programs-patterns that govern our experience of the world.
Any suggestions, thoughts ideas (above and beyond the normal so called NLP Meta Programs) are welcome
Culture wires the brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective
There is evidence that the collectivist nature of East Asian cultures versus individualistic Western cultures affects both brain and behavior. East Asians tend to process information in a global manner whereas Westerners tend to focus on individual objects. There are differences between East Asians and Westerners with respect to attention, categorization, and reasoning. For example, in one study, after viewing pictures of fish swimming, Japanese volunteers were more likely to remember contextual details of the image than were American volunteers. Experiments tracking participants’ eye movements revealed that Westerners spend more time looking at focal objects while Chinese volunteers look more at the background. In addition, our culture may play a role in the way we process facial information. Research has indicated that when viewing faces, East Asians focus on the central region of faces while Westerners look more broadly, focusing on both the eyes and mouth.
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I’m glad you’ve mentioned all this as it trills me to say how amazing our cultural and racial differences are.
As these cultural and psycho-social tendencies impress me their differences are just as well complemented by the similarities.
Etymological phenomenon as well as other racial and anthropological issues can extend to the point that Darwin’s theory is really acceptable despite other theories such as the Judeo-Christian belief in the story of Adam and Eve.Not leaving out the famous musing of the likes of Stephen Hawing’s theory of the universe.
Even though I’m aware we belong to the same school of thought which does condone Zen and all the NLP thought trends that are so new age and are in the process of evolving us all to a unity in this global culture of humanity.
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