Taking a Computational Cultural Neuroscience Approach to Study Parent-Child Similarities in Diverse Cultural Contexts

Parent-child similarities and discrepancies at multiple levels provide a window to understand the cultural transmission process. Although prior research has examined parent-child similarities at the belief, behavioral, and physiological levels across cultures, little is known about parent-child simi...

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Published inFrontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 15; p. 703999
Main Authors Chen, Pin-Hao A., Qu, Yang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 26.08.2021
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects
Adjustment
Behavior
Brain research
Children & youth
Chinese Americans
Computational neuroscience
cultural neuroscience
Cultural values
Culture
developmental neuroscience
Families & family life
Image processing
Medical imaging
Nervous system
Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
parent-child interaction
Parents & parenting
Physiology
Questionnaires
Researchers
social interaction
Socialization
United States > US
developmental neuroscience
parent-child interaction
social interaction
cultural neuroscience
computational neuroscience
neuroimaging
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Summary:Parent-child similarities and discrepancies at multiple levels provide a window to understand the cultural transmission process. Although prior research has examined parent-child similarities at the belief, behavioral, and physiological levels across cultures, little is known about parent-child similarities at the neural level. The current review introduces an interdisciplinary computational cultural neuroscience approach, which utilizes computational methods to understand neural and psychological processes being involved during parent-child interactions at intra- and inter-personal level. This review provides three examples, including the application of intersubject representational similarity analysis to analyze naturalistic neuroimaging data, the usage of computer vision to capture non-verbal social signals during parent-child interactions, and unraveling the psychological complexities involved during real-time parent-child interactions based on their simultaneous recorded brain response patterns. We hope that this computational cultural neuroscience approach can provide researchers an alternative way to examine parent-child similarities and discrepancies across different cultural contexts and gain a better understanding of cultural transmission processes.
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Edited by: Xiaolin Zhou, Peking University, China
These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship
This article was submitted to Cognitive Neuroscience, a section of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Reviewed by: Vanessa Reindl, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany; Yang Hu, University of Bonn, Germany
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2021.703999