Serious Way of life Direction NEURAL SUBSTRATES OF SELF-REFLECTION IN TIBETANS
Yanhong Wu, Cheng Wang, Xi He, Lihua Mao and Li Zhang
Parcels want be addressed to Li Zhang, Category of Psychology, Reserves Habit Instructor, 83 Xisanhuan North Rd., Beijing 100089, PR Figurines. E-mail: lizhang@mail.cnu.edu.cn Parcels want more to the point be addressed to Yanhong Wu, Category of Psychology, Peking Instructor, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Beijing 100879, PR Figurines. Email: wuyh@pku.edu.cn
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From the past transcultural neuroimaging studies yield away from home that the neural substrates of self-reflection can be bent by queer cultures. Dowry are few studies, even so, on the neural awareness of self-reflection wherever religion is viewed as a form of cultural language. The put on study examined the self-processing of two Chinese ancestral groups (Han and Tibetan) to dig out the critical competence of religion on the effective anatomy of self-representation. We replicated the other have a fight in Han participants with the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and not here fore cingulate cortex program stronger commencement in self-processing having the status of compared with other-processing withstand. Hitherto, no habitual self-reference representation was acknowledged in Tibetan participants on behavioral or neural levels. This may perhaps be explained by the downcast subjective thrust of 'I-ness' in Tibetan Buddhists. Our findings lend encourage to the supposed competence of culture and religion in seminal the neural substrate of self.
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