Shihui Han: Neural Representation of the Self in Sociocultural Contexts - a podcast by ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe

Neuroaesthetics | Symposium

Symposium im ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, 22.-24. November 2012

In Kooperation und mit Unterstützung der Gemeinnützigen Hertie-Stiftung.

How people think about the self strongly influences their social communica-

tion and behavior. Recent cultural neuroscience studies have shown increas-

ing evidence for modulation of neural representation of the self by cultural

contexts and cultural experiences. I will present our recent research that used

different psychological paradigms and different brain imaging methods to in-

vestigate cultural influences on neural mechanisms underlying self-reflection

on personal attributes. I will also present preliminary brain imaging results that uncover how genes may interact with culture to shape the social brain network activity involved in reflection on the self and close others. These findings are helpful for understanding the biosocial nature of neural mechanisms of human self-concept.

Dr. Shihui Han is a professor at the Department of Psychology, Peking Uni-

versity. He is the director of the Cultural and Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Laboratory. He served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Peking

University between 2003 and 2007. He studies cultural and genetic influences

on neural substrates of social cognition such as self-referential processing,

empathy, and theory-of-mind. He has published over a hundred research papers

in journals such as Nature Review Neuroscience, Annual Review of Psychology, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Psychological Science, NeuroImage, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Journalof Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Social Neuroscience, etc. He is now the chief editor of Culture and Brain and the associate editor of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscienc, Social Neuroscience, and Acta Psychologica

Sinica.

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