announces the release of volume 3 of the Book Series “On Thinking” published with Springer:

Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication. Edited by  Shihui Han, Department of Psychology, Peking University and Ernst Pöppel, Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

The third volume of Parmenides Book Series focuses on the relationship between culture and cognition because there has been accumulating evidence during the last few years that socio- cultural contexts generate strong influence on human cognition and the underlying neural substrates. Since then, there has been increasing interest in studies of the interaction between sociocultural factors and multiple levels (e.g., gene, neuron, neural circuit) of the biological basis of cognitive processes. Researchers have also started to examine neurocognitve processes in specific sociocultural contexts from the evolutionary point of view in order to understand the mutual interactions between environments and the human brain.

 The book is organized so that two chapters provide general views of the relation between biological evolution, cultural evolution and recent cultural neuroscience studies, while other chapters focus on various aspects of human cognition that have been shown to be strongly influenced by sociocultural factors such as self-concept representation, language processes, emotion, time perception, and decision-making. The main goal of this work is to address how thinking and the underlying neural mechanisms are affected by culture and identity.

Learn more about the Parmenides Book Series -> here