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Processing of a spoken narrative in the human brain is shaped by family cultural background

Hakonen, M.; Ikaheimonen, A.; Hulten, A.; Kauttonen, J.; Koskinen, M.; Lin, F.-H.; Lowe, A.; Sams, M.; Jaaskelainen, I.

2020-05-12 neuroscience
10.1101/2020.05.11.083931 bioRxiv
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Using neuroimaging, we studied influence of family cultural background on processing of an audiobook in human brain. The audiobook depicted life of two young Finnish men, one with the Finnish and the other with the Russian family background. Shared family cultural background enhanced similarity of narrative processing in the brain at prelexical, word, sentence, and narrative levels. Similarity was also enhanced in brain areas supporting imagery. The cultural background was further reflected as semantic differences in word lists by which the subjects described what had been on their minds when they heard the audiobook during neuroimaging. Strength of social identity shaped word, sentence, and narrative level processing in the brain. These effects might enhance mutual understanding between persons who share family cultural background and social identity and, conversely, deteriorate between-group mutual understanding in modern multicultural societies wherein native speakers of a language may assume highly similar understanding.

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