Neuroculture

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Neuroculture is the relation between the sciences that study the functioning of the brain and culture. We understand the latter as the knowledge, history, habits, ideas and values of the human race, and their manifestations in any form of expression: social, scientific, artistic, philosophical, moral or religious, etc.

Drawing by Santiago Ramon y Cajal of two types of Golgi-stained neurons from the cerebellum of a pigeon

The basis of Neuroculture is that everything a human being creates is generated in the brain, from the most primary functions resulting from millions of years of evolution, to superior expressions, like art, religious or scientific thinking. Thus, the link that relates the biological functioning of the brain to the results of its processes creates a method of explaining how human beings respond to their environment in every possible way.

The study of human beings has been analysed by many scientific and humanistic branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, theology, ethics, and jurisprudence. The understanding we have nowadays of the way the brain works makes it impossible for these disciplines to ignore that it is the brain that creates and organizes thoughts, which lead to data, deductions, structures, laws and, ultimately, the content that conforms them.

Neuroscience, together with the humanistic and scientific disciplines, creates a new level of study that leads to a reassessment of some of its fields of study and, of course, the enrichment of all of them.

According to this approach, in which Neuroscience joins the rest of the humanistic and scientific disciplines, new related terms appear. For example, we have neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroethics, neurotheology, neuroesthetics, neurocognition or neuroeducation. Any area of study is prone to be related to neuroscience.

Regardless of the cultural society we are dealing with, the functioning of the brain has characteristics that are common to every society and race on the Earth. These characteristics have been confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging and it has been verified that emotions and feelings related to morals, love, pleasure, etc., activate the same brain areas whatever the society or race we are dealing with. The only differences are due to the way diverse cultures interpret the facts, ways of life or moral beliefs in one way or another

References

Mora, Francisco (2007). Neuroculture, one culture based in the brain. Alianza Editorial. p. 190. ISBN 978-84-206-4795-1.
Churchland, Patricia. Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain.
Johnson, George (2007). God Is in the Dendrites Can "neurotheology" bridge the gap between religion and science?.
Ambady, N. & Bharucha, J.J. (2009). Culture and the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 342-345.

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Sciences	Anthropology Cultural ecology Cultural neuroscience Cultural studies Culturology Culture theory

Subfields	Cultural anthropology Cultural economics Cultural geography Cultural history Cultural psychology Intercultural relations Philosophy of culture Semiotics of culture Sociology of culture Theology of culture Sound culture Visual culture

Types	Dominant culture Folk culture High culture Low culture Official culture Political culture Popular culture Primitive culture Subculture list Super-culture Culture by location

Aspects	Acculturation Cultural appropriation Cultural artifact Cultural baggage Cultural behavior Cultural capital Cultural communication Cultural conflict Cultural cringe Cultural deprivation Cultural dissonance Cultural framework Cultural heritage Cultural icon Cultural identity Cultural invention Cultural landscape Cultural memory Cultural pluralism Cultural practice Cultural property Cultural region Cultural reproduction Cultural system Cultural universal Enculturation High- and low-context cultures Interculturality Material culture Trans-cultural diffusion Transculturation

Politics	Colonial mentality Consumer capitalism Cultural assimilation Cultural attaché Cultural backwardness Cultural Bolshevism Cultural conservatism Cultural diplomacy Cultural feminism Cultural genocide Cultural hegemony Cultural imperialism Cultural intelligence Cultural learning Cultural liberalism Cultural Marxism Cultural nationalism Cultural pessimism Cultural policy Cultural rights Cultural Zionism Culture change Culture minister Culture war Interculturalism Multiculturalism

Related	Bennett scale Cross-cultural Cultural bias Cultural competence Cultural critic Cultural diversity Cultural lag Cultural mosaic Cultural movement Cultural relativism Cultural tourism Cultural turn Cultural sensibility Culture gap Culture hero Culture industry Culture shock Death and culture Emotions and culture Intercultural competence Organizational culture Transformation of culture

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