Culture and Cognition

Abstract

There is increasing interest in the nature and both environmental and cognitive origins of culturally associated differences in a range of behaviors. This special issue of Cognitive Neuroscience presents six empirical papers investigating diverse categories of potential culturally related effects as well as a review article, all of which provide timely updates of the current state of knowledge in this area.

Keywords:

• Culture
• Cognition
• Self
• Context
• Attention
• Pain
• Object perception
• Mathematics