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Aging, Culture, and Memory for Categorically Processed Information

Author(s) -

Lixia Yang,

Wenfeng Chen,

Andy H. Ng,

Xueliang Fu

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbt006

Subject(s) - categorization , task (project management) , psychology , cognition , ethnic group , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , sociology , paleontology , management , neuroscience , anthropology , economics , biology

Literature on cross-cultural differences in cognition suggests that categorization, as an information processing and organization strategy, was more often used by Westerners than by East Asians, particularly for older adults. This study examines East-West cultural differences in memory for categorically processed items and sources in young and older Canadians and native Chinese with a conceptual source memory task (Experiment 1) and a reality monitoring task (Experiment 2).

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