Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic-analytic cultural style.

ABSTRACT: Although research in the field of cultural psychology and cultural neuroscience has revealed that culture is an important factor related to the human behaviors and neural activities in various tasks, it remains unclear how different brain regions organize together to construct a topological network for the representation of individual's cultural tendency. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that resting-state brain network properties can reflect individual's cultural background or tendency. By combining the methods of resting-state magnetic resonance imaging and graph theoretical analysis, significant cultural differences between participants from Eastern and Western cultures were found in the degree and global efficiency of regions mainly within the default mode network and subcorti

SUBMITTER: Luo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847908 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature