Source memory, aging and culture
Source memory, aging and culture
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DOI：
10.1159/000094612
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Park, Denise C.
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作者：
Chua, Hannah Faye;Chen, Wenfeng;Park, Denise C.
背景：本研究探讨了文化影响背景记忆年龄差异的可能性。有证据表明，东亚人对场景的处理更全面，并且比美国人表现出更好的背景记忆。目的：我们研究了年轻人和老年人以及中国人在结合来源与背景方面的差异。我们假设，年龄对源记忆的影响可以减轻由于这些文化差异的处理风格。方法：在偶然编码过程中，年轻和年长的中国人和美国人观看了一段由四个不同的说话者说出的视频。在短暂的间隔后，参与者识别源（实验1）或项目和源（实验2）。结果如下：我们观察到大量的年龄相关的缺陷，在两种文化中的源记忆，但很少有证据表明，在源或项目记忆的文化差异。结论：基本的源记忆过程在不同文化和年龄之间的运作方式相似。在不同文化之间观察到的整体处理差异的来源可能发生在与社会背景有更高联系的认知操作中。
Background: The present study investigates the possibility that culture affects age differences in context memory. There is evidence that East-Asians process scenes more holistically and show better context memory than Americans. Objective:We examined evidence for differences in binding source to context in young and old Americans and native Chinese. We hypothesized that age effects on source memory could be mitigated due to these cultural differences in processing style. Methods: During incidental encoding, younger and older Chinese and Americans watched a video with statements spoken by four distinct speakers. After a brief interval, participants identified source (experiment 1) or item and source (experiment 2). Results: We observed substantial age-related deficits in source memory in both cultures but little evidence for cultural differences in source or item memory. Conclusion: Basic source memory processes operate similarly across culture and age. The source of holistic processing differences observed between cultures may occur in cognitive operations that are more highly bound to a social context.