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Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the life span | |
Hedden, T; Park, DC; Nisbett, R; Ji, LJ; Jing, QC; Jiao, SL; T. Hedden | |
摘要 | Established culture-invariant measures are needed for cross-cultural assessment of verbal and visuospatial speed of processing and working memory across the life span. In this study, 32 younger and 32 older adults from China and from the United States were administered numerically based and spatially based measures of speed of processing and working memory. Chinese superiority on the numerically based tasks was found for younger adults. Age and increasing task demands diminished this cultural effect, as predicted by the framework proposed by D. C. Park, R. Nisbett, and T. Hedden (1999). However, the visuospatial measures of both working memory and speed of processing did not differ cross-culturally for either age group. The authors concluded that these visuospatial measures provide culture-invariant estimates of cognitive processes in East Asian and Western cultures, but that numerically based tasks show evidence of cultural and linguistic biases in performance levels.; Established culture-invariant measures are needed for cross-cultural assessment of verbal and visuospatial speed of processing and working memory across the life span. In this study, 32 younger and 32 older adults from China and from the United States were administered numerically based and spatially based measures of speed of processing and working memory. Chinese superiority on the numerically based tasks was found for younger adults. Age and increasing task demands diminished this cultural effect, as predicted by the framework proposed by D. C. Park, R. Nisbett, and T. Hedden (1999). However, the visuospatial measures of both working memory and speed of processing did not differ cross-culturally for either age group. The authors concluded that these visuospatial measures provide culture-invariant estimates of cognitive processes in East Asian and Western cultures, but that numerically based tasks show evidence of cultural and linguistic biases in performance levels. |
关键词 | adult age-differences working-memory term-memory chinese words old-age dementia english mediation cognition speed |
学科领域 | 认知心理学 |
2002 | |
语种 | 英语 |
发表期刊 | NEUROPSYCHOLOGY |
ISSN | 0894-4105 |
卷号 | 16期号:1页码:65-73 |
期刊论文类型 | Article |
收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000173794700008 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5297 |
专题 | 中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010) |
通讯作者 | T. Hedden |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hedden, T,Park, DC,Nisbett, R,et al. Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the life span[J]. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY,2002,16(1):65-73. |
APA | Hedden, T.,Park, DC.,Nisbett, R.,Ji, LJ.,Jing, QC.,...&T. Hedden.(2002).Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the life span.NEUROPSYCHOLOGY,16(1),65-73. |
MLA | Hedden, T,et al."Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the life span".NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 16.1(2002):65-73. |
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