PMID- 17134915
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070315
LR  - 20220409
IS  - 1053-8119 (Print)
IS  - 1053-8119 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 3
DP  - 2007 Feb 1
TI  - Neural basis of cultural influence on self-representation.
PG  - 1310-6
AB  - Culture affects the psychological structure of self and results in two distinct 
      types of self-representation (Western independent self and East Asian 
      interdependent self). However, the neural basis of culture-self interaction 
      remains unknown. We used fMRI to measured brain activity from Western and Chinese 
      subjects who judged personal trait adjectives regarding self, mother or a public 
      person. We found that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and anterior cingulate 
      cortex (ACC) showed stronger activation in self- than other-judgment conditions 
      for both Chinese and Western subjects. However, relative to other-judgments, 
      mother-judgments activated MPFC in Chinese but not in Western subjects. Our 
      findings suggest that Chinese individuals use MPFC to represent both the self and 
      the mother whereas Westerners use MPFC to represent exclusively the self, 
      providing neuroimaging evidence that culture shapes the functional anatomy of 
      self-representation.
FAU - Zhu, Ying
AU  - Zhu Y
AD  - Department of Psychology, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, P R 
      China. zhuy@pku.edu.cn
FAU - Zhang, Li
AU  - Zhang L
FAU - Fan, Jin
AU  - Fan J
FAU - Han, Shihui
AU  - Han S
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20061128
PL  - United States
TA  - Neuroimage
JT  - NeuroImage
JID - 9215515
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain/*physiology
MH  - *Brain Mapping
MH  - China/ethnology
MH  - *Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mothers
MH  - *Self Concept
MH  - United States/ethnology
EDAT- 2006/12/01 09:00
MHDA- 2007/03/16 09:00
CRDT- 2006/12/01 09:00
PHST- 2006/05/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/07/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2006/08/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2006/12/01 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/03/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/01 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1053-8119(06)00918-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.047 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neuroimage. 2007 Feb 1;34(3):1310-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.047. Epub 
      2006 Nov 28.