Cultural influences on memory

Gutchess, Angela H.; Indeck, Allie

doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(09)17809-3

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“…Although this paradigm has not yet been used to explore differences between culture groups, we propose that cultural orientation, like age, may affect the specificity of memory. The lens of culture can direct preferred modes of processing and/or attention to particular features of the environment (Gutchess and Indeck 2009). Because memory is a constructive process (Schacter 1999), information is encoded and retrieved based on those aspects most salient to the individual, such as conceptual, perceptual, or relational features.…”

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Cross-cultural differences in memory specificity

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Attention and memory have been shown to differ across cultures, with independent Western cultures preferring an object-based feature analysis and interdependent Eastern cultures preferring a context-based holistic analysis. In two experiments, we assessed whether these cultural differences not only affect how much information is remembered, but also the specificity of memory such that the feature analysis preference of Americans should lead to greater memory for visual detail. Americans and East Asians incidentally encoded pictures of single items (Exp 1) and pictures of focal items presented against a meaningful background (Exp 2). On a recognition test, participants made same, similar, or new decisions about items (Exp 1 & 2) and backgrounds (Exp 2) that were the same as or similar to the encoded stimuli, as well as novel lures. As predicted, Americans exhibited greater accuracy than East Asians in specific memory for objects presented alone and this trend continued across both objects and backgrounds when objects were depicted in context. The two cultural groups did not differ in general (item-level) memory. These results support the idea that the feature analysis biases of Westerners may increase the specificity of visual information contained in memory, despite equivalent item-level memory.

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“…Opportunities for physical and mental activities, but also access to local facilities are positively associated with being active and this can in turn inform the development of policies to promote cognitive health of the population (Booth et al 2000). Furthermore, attitudes towards ageing are likely to help explain the between-country variation in cognitive performances over time (for a discussion, see e.g., Gutchess and Indeck 2009). Additional cross-country comparisons of average cognitive functioning at different ages, on different data for the same cohort of individuals, or on different cohorts can be performed once younger cohorts for which school tests are available reach older ages and are observed in ageing surveys.…”

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A cross-country comparison of math achievement at teen age and cognitive performance 40 years later

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“…This concern about culture is in contrast to the use of primes to directly manipulate culture in that participants can be randomly assigned to one cultural group or another. This is achieved through priming by orienting individuals to different aspects of the self-concept (e.g., independence or interdependence), which can potentially infl uence memory and neural activity differently during selfreference vs. other-reference judgments (Gutchess & Indeck, 2009 ). In order to demonstrate the contribution of priming to cross-cultural differences in selfreferential processing and how self-identity is considered in relation to others Chiao et al ( 2010 ) exposed bicultural individuals to either an individualistic or a collectivistic prime prior to a self-judgment task.…”

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