East-West cultural differences in encoding objects in imagined social contexts.

ABSTRACT: It has been shown in literature that East Asians are more inclined to process context information than individuals in Western cultures. Using a context memory task that requires studying object images in social contexts (i.e., rating objects in an imagined social or experiential scenario), our recent study revealed an age-invariant advantage for Chinese young and older participants compared to their Canadian counterparts in memory for encoding contexts. To examine whether this cultural difference also occurred during encoding, this follow-up report analyzed encoding performance and its relationship to subsequent memory based on the same data from the same task of the same sample. The results revealed that at encoding, Chinese participants provided higher ratings of objects, took longer to

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6245740 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature