Editing Cognitive development (section)

==== Transcultural neuroimaging studies====
New studies in transcultural neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that one's cultural background can influence the neural activity that underlies both high (for example, social cognition) and low (for example, perception) level cognitive functions. Studies demonstrated that groups that come from different cultures or that have been exposed to culturally different stimuli have differences in neural activity. For example, differences were found in that of the pre motor cortex during mental calculation and that of the VMPFC during trait judgements of one's mother from people with different cultural backgrounds. In conclusion, since differences were found in both high-level and low-level cognition one can assume that our brain's activity is strongly and, at least in part, constitutionally shaped by its sociocultural context.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = han | first1 = S. | last2 = Northoff | first2 = Georg | year = 2008 | title = Culture sensitive neural substrates of human cognition: a transcultural neuroimaging approach | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51415748|journal = Nature Reviews | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 646–654| doi = 10.1038/nrn2456 | pmid = 18641669 | s2cid = 6461309 }}</ref>