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Approaching the subject defined by the title from the neurobiological point of view, in this paper the authors reflect on the cognitive processes of adaptable individuals and translators, based on the contributions of those who partecipated in the First Series of Lectures on sub-Saharan Africa. In addressing the issue of interculturality and translation, the editors have decided to use a metaphor relating to the cognitive perspective, approaching the field of neurobiology through a work by Semir Zeki, A vision of the Brian (1993 ). They believe that the parallel between cultural vision and physical or neurobiological vision, as analyzed in Zeki’s book, can shed some light on human behaviour in the face of otherness and the crisis which is sometimes caused by contact with other cultures, as well as the negative attitude that may ensue. Moreover, such attempts to establish parallels between the humanities and research in the pure and natural sciences is one of the aims of the so-called Third Culture, which advocates communication between intellectuals from the worlds of the arts and the sciences.