The Neural Mechanisms of Naturalistic Interactive Cultural Learning

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In the era of globalization, people frequently encounter information from other cultures either directly through social interactions or indirectly through social media. In such cases, our cultural mindset is subtly shifted, a process known as cultural learning (Herrmann et al., 2007; Tomasello et al., 1993). Previous research has revealed that individuals can acquire the representations of other cultures, thereby aligning their neurocognitive process more closely with other cultures (Kitayama et al., 2017; Kitayama et al., 2011). However, few studies have investigated this issue in a direct social interaction context, leaving the cognitive process behind naturalistic culture learning and the underlying neural bases unknown.