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| Aging, culture and cognition | | Author(s) | Denise C Park, Richard Nisbett, Trey Hedden |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 54B, no 2, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp P75-P84 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Chinese people ; Ageing process ; Cognitive processes ; Cross cultural surveys ; Europe ; China. |
| Annotation | There is evidence that East Asians are biased to process information in an holistic, contextual fashion, whereas Western Europeans process information in an analytic, feature-based style. The authors argue that these cultural differences in information-processing styles are so pervasive, that they affect cognitive function at the most basic level, including the mechanics of cognition. However, as individuals age, it is not always the case that culture effects on cognitive processes magnify, despite many additional years of exposure to the culture. Neurobiological decline in cognitive function that occurs with age is a cognitive universal and can limit the strategies used in late adulthood. A theoretical framework for understanding the impact of cognitive function cross-culturally is presented. The importance of developing cultural-invariant measures of processing resources is emphasised and methodological issues associated with the cross-cultural study of ageing are addressed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990426001 A |
| Classmark | TK: TKL: BG: DA: 3KA: 74: 7DC |
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