Cultural neuroscience research has provided substantial evidence that culture shapes the brain by providing systematically different sets of experiences. However, cultures are ever-changing in response to the physical and social environment. In the present paper, we integrate theories and methods from cultural neuroscience with the emerging body of research on cultural change and suggest several ways in which the two fields can inform each other. First, we propose that the cultural change perspective helps us reexamine what is meant by culturally typical experiences, which are shaped by the dynamic interaction between cultural norms, values, meanings, and other environmental constraints on behavior. It also allows us to make predictions about the variability/stability of cultural neural differences over time. Then, we discuss how methods used in cultural change research may be applied to cultural neuroscience research and vice versa. We end with a “blue sky vision” for a neuroscience of cultural change.

文化神经科学研究提供了大量证据，证明文化通过系统地提供不同的体验集来塑造大脑。但是，文化在不断变化，以适应自然和社会环境。在本文中，我们将来自文化神经科学的理论和方法与新兴的文化变革研究相结合，并提出了两个领域可以相互交流的几种方式。首先，我们提出文化变化观点可以帮助我们重新审视文化典型经验的含义，这些经验是文化规范，价值观，含义以及其他行为环境约束之间动态相互作用所形成的。它还使我们能够预测文化神经差异随时间的变化/稳定性。然后，我们讨论了如何将文化变革研究中使用的方法应用于文化神经科学研究，反之亦然。我们以文化变革的神经科学的“蓝天视野”结束。