Culture and Brain

Humans are biologically adapted to cultural environments they themselves create. Human brain and mind are therefore modified, shaped, and formed through one's active engagement in a variety of sociocultural contexts. Understanding the interplay between culture and human brain function and between culture and human behaviour is a necessary step for uncovering both the mechanisms underlying cultural processes and behaviour and human brain responses to evolutionary/societal demands. Studies of mutual interactions between culture and human brain/mind require scientific research from multiple disciplines to bridge the gap between natural sciences and humanities. This opens an avenue to understand both generalities of human nature and particularities of human practices.

Culture and Brain aims to provide a platform to publish empirical and review articles that focus on the interrelationship between culture and human behaviour and between culture and human brain. The Journal covers topics such as how the mutual interaction between culture and brain/mind influences human cognition, emotion, and behaviour, what mechanisms underlie cultural experiences, and how the cultural diversity of human collectives is created.