PMID- 26236572
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200929
IS  - 2193-8652 (Print)
IS  - 2193-8660 (Electronic)
IS  - 2193-8652 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Mar
TI  - ACTIVITY IN CORTICAL MIDLINE STRUCTURES IS MODULATED BY SELF-CONSTRUAL CHANGES 
      DURING ACCULTURATION.
PG  - 39-52
AB  - Recent immigrants to another culture generally experience a period of 
      acculturation during which they show self-construal changes. Here, we examine how 
      this acculturation period alters brain activity associated with self-referential 
      cognition. Twenty-seven native Chinese-speaking recent immigrants completed a 
      trait-judgment task in which they judged whether a series of psychological traits 
      applied to themselves and, separately, whether these traits applied to their 
      mothers. Participants were scanned at two intervals: within the first two months 
      of their arrival in the United States (Time 1), and also six months after the 
      initial scan (Time 2). Results already revealed a significant self-vs.-mother 
      differentiation at Time 1 in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior 
      cingulate cortex (PCC). However, at time 2, this pattern diverged depending on 
      whether immigrants became more or less like their original culture. That is to 
      say, for immigrants who became less like Easterners, the self vs. mother 
      difference remained, whereas for participants who became even more like 
      Easterners, the self vs. mother difference in cortical midline structures 
      disappeared. These findings support the notion that self-construal changes during 
      the process of acculturation are reflected in the relative engagement of brain 
      structures implicated in self-referential processing (i.e., MPFC and PCC) when 
      judging traits with reference to oneself or a close other.
FAU - Chen, Pin-Hao A
AU  - Chen PA
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
FAU - Wagner, Dylan D
AU  - Wagner DD
AD  - Department of Psychology, Ohio State University.
FAU - Kelley, William M
AU  - Kelley WM
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
FAU - Heatherton, Todd F
AU  - Heatherton TF
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 MH059282/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Cult Brain
JT  - Culture and brain
JID - 101622128
PMC - PMC4520324
MID - NIHMS657161
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - acculturation
OT  - cultural neuroscience
OT  - functional magnetic resonance imaging
OT  - medial prefrontal cortex
OT  - self
OT  - self-construal style
EDAT- 2015/08/04 06:00
MHDA- 2015/08/04 06:01
PMCR- 2016/03/01
CRDT- 2015/08/04 06:00
PHST- 2015/08/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/08/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/08/04 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cult Brain. 2015 Mar;3(1):39-52. doi: 10.1007/s40167-015-0026-z.