文化、行为与大脑课程详细信息

课程号 30340075 学分 2
英文名称 Culture, Behavior and Brain
先修课程 Undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in culture and human behavior. Psychology and brain imaging are NOT pre-requisites for this course.
中文简介 Human beings have created the most colourful cultures in the world that not only contextualize our behaviour but shape our mind and brain as well. Do people's behaviour vary across cultures? Whether and how cultures influence human cognitive processes and underlying brain activity? Do individuals engaged in Western and East Asian cultures have distinct cognitive styles during perception and attention? Can we understand cultural differences in social behaviour by examining cultural effects on brain functional organization? Can we modify individuals' brain activity in laboratory by short-term exposure of new cultural values? How does culture interact with genes to modulate brain functions and behaviour? Can we predict future changes of human behaviour by examining current cultural differences in multiple neurocognitive processes? There has been a long history of human thoughts of these interesting issues. However, only recently have these questions been examined by empirical studies that combine psychology, neuroscience, brain imaging, genetics, etc. This 4-weeks course aims to illustrate the important issues regarding the interactive relationships between culture, behaviour and brain, to explain psychological paradigms and brain imaging methods that have been integrated to study cultural influences on cognitive and neural processes, to introduce our current knowledge/theory about the sociocultural brain, and to discuss future questions regarding the interactive relationships between culture, behaviour, and brain. The first three weeks will focus on class teaching and discussion and, during the last week, students in small groups will be required to finish proposals of independent research project proposals related to cultural effects on behaviour, mind, and brain. There'll also be opportunities for students to visit the brain imaging facilities at Peking University and to get involved in experimental studies.
英文简介 Human beings have created the most colourful cultures in the world that not only contextualize our behaviour but shape our mind and brain as well. Do people's behaviour vary across cultures? Whether and how cultures influence human cognitive processes and underlying brain activity? Do individuals engaged in Western and East Asian cultures have distinct cognitive styles during perception and attention? Can we understand cultural differences in social behaviour by examining cultural effects on brain functional organization? Can we modify individuals' brain activity in laboratory by short-term exposure of new cultural values? How does culture interact with genes to modulate brain functions and behaviour? Can we predict future changes of human behaviour by examining current cultural differences in multiple neurocognitive processes? There has been a long history of human thoughts of these interesting issues. However, only recently have these questions been examined by empirical studies that combine psychology, neuroscience, brain imaging, genetics, etc. This 4-weeks course aims to illustrate the important issues regarding the interactive relationships between culture, behaviour and brain, to explain psychological paradigms and brain imaging methods that have been integrated to study cultural influences on cognitive and neural processes, to introduce our current knowledge/theory about the sociocultural brain, and to discuss future questions regarding the interactive relationships between culture, behaviour, and brain. The first three weeks will focus on class teaching and discussion and, during the last week, students in small groups will be required to finish proposals of independent research project proposals related to cultural effects on behaviour, mind, and brain. There'll also be opportunities for students to visit the brain imaging facilities at Peking University and to get involved in experimental studies.
开课院系 教务部
通选课领域  
是否属于艺术与美育
平台课性质  
平台课类型  
授课语言 英文
教材
参考书
教学大纲 Session 1:Cultural differences in behavior
Session 2: Cultural differences in mind
Session 3:Cultural difference in brain activity underlying perception
Session 4: Culture and self
Session 5:Culture and others
Session 6:Cultural priming
Session 7:Culture-gene interaction
Session 8:Culture-behavior-brain loop of human development
Session 9:Research proposal
Week 1-3: teaching and discussion
Week 4: prepare and submit project proposals, visit brain imaging facilities at Peking University

Text Books and Reading Materials
About 20 essays and articles will be assigned to students
Students will be given review and empirical articles for reading and discussion and for preparing their project proposals.
Evaluation will be conducted based on students` motivation and activity in classroom and their final project proposals.
教学评估 韩世辉:
学年度学期:17-18-3,课程班:文化、行为与大脑1,课程推荐得分:5.0,教师推荐得分:5.0,课程得分分数段:100-105;