Cultural Influences on Social and Self-Relevant Memory

Huff, Sarah; Ligouri, Laura; Gutchess, Angela H.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2260-4_9

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“…Wang, Masuda, Ito, & Rashid, 2012). Although it may not be surprising that cultural identity can impact areas like self-relevant or autobiographical memory (see Huff, Ligouri, & Gutchess, 2015 for a review; Q. Wang, 2006, 2009), this research suggests that culture could also shape how we remember seemingly objective information that is not explicitly related to our self-identity (Gutchess & Huff, 2016).…”

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Cross-cultural differences in the neural correlates of specific and general recognition

Paige

Ksander

Johndro

et al. 2017

Cortex

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Research suggests that culture influences how people perceive the world, which extends to memory specificity, or how much perceptual detail is remembered. The present study investigated cross-cultural differences (Americans vs. East Asians) at the time of encoding in the neural correlates of specific vs. general memory formation. Participants encoded photos of everyday items in the scanner and 48 hours later completed a surprise recognition test. The recognition test consisted of same (i.e., previously seen in scanner), similar (i.e., same name, different features), or new photos (i.e., items not previously seen in scanner). For Americans compared to East Asians, we predicted greater activation in the hippocampus and right fusiform for specific memory at recognition, as these regions were implicated previously in encoding perceptual details. Results revealed that East Asians activated the left fusiform and left hippocampus more than Americans for specific vs. general memory. Follow-up analyses ruled out alternative explanations of retrieval difficulty and familiarity for this pattern of cross-cultural differences at encoding. Results overall suggest that culture should be considered as another individual difference that affects memory specificity and modulates neural regions underlying these processes.

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