Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-10-01Epub Date: 2017-10-24DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0055-x
Laura E Paige, Selen Amado, Angela H Gutchess
{"title":"Influence of encoding instructions and response bias on cross-cultural differences in specific recognition.","authors":"Laura E Paige, Selen Amado, Angela H Gutchess","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0055-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0055-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior cross-cultural research has reported cultural variations in memory. One study revealed that Americans remembered images with more perceptual detail than East Asians (Millar et al. in Cult Brain 1(2-4):138-157, 2013). However, in a later study, this expected pattern was not replicated, possibly due to differences in encoding instructions (Paige et al. in Cortex 91:250-261, 2017). The present study sought to examine when cultural variation in memory-related decisions occur and the role of instructions. American and East Asian participants viewed images of objects while making a <i>Purchase</i> decision or an <i>Approach</i> decision and later completed a surprise recognition test. Results revealed Americans had higher hit rates for specific memory, regardless of instruction type, and a less stringent response criterion relative to East Asians. Additionally, a pattern emerged where the <i>Approach</i> decision enhanced hit rates for specific memory relative to the <i>Purchase</i> decision only when administered first; this pattern did not differ across cultures. Results suggest encoding instructions do not magnify cross-cultural differences in memory. Ultimately, cross-cultural differences in response bias, rather than memory sensitivity per se, may account for findings of cultural differences in memory specificity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"5 2","pages":"153-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40167-017-0055-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36006582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-10-01Epub Date: 2017-10-30DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0054-y
Hee Yeon Im, Sang Chul Chong, Jisoo Sun, Troy G Steiner, Daniel N Albohn, Reginald B Adams, Kestutis Kveraga
{"title":"Cross-cultural and hemispheric laterality effects on the ensemble coding of emotion in facial crowds.","authors":"Hee Yeon Im, Sang Chul Chong, Jisoo Sun, Troy G Steiner, Daniel N Albohn, Reginald B Adams, Kestutis Kveraga","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0054-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0054-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many social situations, we make a snap judgment about crowds of people relying on their overall mood (termed \"crowd emotion\"). Although reading crowd emotion is critical for interpersonal dynamics, the sociocultural aspects of this process have not been explored. The current study examined how culture modulates the processing of crowd emotion in Korean and American observers. Korean and American (non-East Asian) participants were briefly presented with two groups of faces that were individually varying in emotional expressions and asked to choose which group between the two they would rather avoid. We found that Korean participants were more accurate than American participants overall, in line with the framework on cultural viewpoints: Holistic versus analytic processing in East Asians versus Westerners. Moreover, we found a speed advantage for other-race crowds in both cultural groups. Finally, we found different hemispheric lateralization patterns: American participants were more accurate to perceive the facial crowd to be avoided when it was presented in the left visual field than the right visual field, indicating a right hemisphere advantage for processing crowd emotion of both European American and Korean facial crowds. However, Korean participants showed weak or nonexistent laterality effects, with a slight right hemisphere advantage for European American facial crowds and no advantage in perceiving Korean facial crowds. Instead, Korean participants showed positive emotion bias for own-race faces. This work suggests that culture plays a role in modulating our crowd emotion perception of groups of faces and responses to them.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"5 2","pages":"125-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40167-017-0054-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35331693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-07-14DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0051-1
Young-Kuen Kwak, Jaehyung Kwon, K. Yun, J. Jeong, S. Huettel
{"title":"Money for us versus money for them: cross-cultural differences in sensitivity to rewards for ingroup and outgroup","authors":"Young-Kuen Kwak, Jaehyung Kwon, K. Yun, J. Jeong, S. Huettel","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0051-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0051-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"138 1","pages":"36 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76431320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-05-12DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0050-2
A. Fernández, J. Abe
{"title":"Bias in cross-cultural neuropsychological testing: problems and possible solutions","authors":"A. Fernández, J. Abe","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0050-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0050-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88947731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-04-01Epub Date: 2016-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0045-4
Joan Y Chiao, Shu-Chen Li, Robert Turner, Su Yeon Lee-Tauler, Beverly A Pringle
{"title":"Cultural neuroscience and global mental health: addressing grand challenges.","authors":"Joan Y Chiao, Shu-Chen Li, Robert Turner, Su Yeon Lee-Tauler, Beverly A Pringle","doi":"10.1007/s40167-016-0045-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0045-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mental, neurological and substance-use (MNS) disorders comprise approximately 13% of the global burden of disease. The Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health Initiative has recently identified research priorities for the next decade to address prevention and treatment of MNS disorders. One main research priority is to identify the root causes, risks and protective factors associated with global mental health. Recent advances in cultural neuroscience have identified theoretical, methodological, and empirical methods of identifying biomarkers associated with mental health disorders across nations. Here we review empirical research in cultural neuroscience that address meeting the grand challenges in global mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"5 1","pages":"4-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40167-016-0045-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35113219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-03-09DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0049-8
E. Losin
{"title":"Culture, brain, and health: introduction to the special issue","authors":"E. Losin","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0049-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0049-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"48 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75776057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-02-25DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0048-9
Xiao-Fei Yang, Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang
{"title":"Culture and cardiac vagal tone independently influence emotional expressiveness","authors":"Xiao-Fei Yang, Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0048-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0048-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"33 1","pages":"36 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78951429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0047-2
A. Hamilton, Frida Lind
{"title":"Erratum to: Audience effects: what can they tell us about social neuroscience, theory of mind and autism?","authors":"A. Hamilton, Frida Lind","doi":"10.1007/s40167-016-0047-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0047-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"23 1","pages":"90 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72718484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Culture and BrainPub Date : 2017-01-07DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0046-3
Christopher N. Cascio, M. O'Donnell, B. Simons-Morton, C. Bingham, E. Falk
{"title":"Cultural context moderates neural pathways to social influence","authors":"Christopher N. Cascio, M. O'Donnell, B. Simons-Morton, C. Bingham, E. Falk","doi":"10.1007/s40167-016-0046-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0046-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"21 1","pages":"50 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84920586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture and emotion perception: comparing Canadian and Japanese children's and parents' context sensitivity.","authors":"Hajin Lee, Kristina Nand, Yuki Shimizu, Akira Takada, Miki Kodama, Takahiko Masuda","doi":"10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research on the perception of facial expressions suggests that East Asians are more likely than North Americans to incorporate the expressions of background figures into their judgment of a central figure's emotion (Masuda et al. in J Pers Soc Psychol 94:365-381, 2008b). However, little research has examined this issue in the context of developmental science, especially during joint sessions where parents engage in a task in front of their 7-8-year-old children. In this study, 22 Canadian and 20 Japanese child-parent dyads participated in an emotion judgment task, and were asked to judge a central figure's emotion and explain their reasoning. The results indicated that while early elementary school children did not show culturally dominant reasoning styles, parents displayed culturally dominant modes of attention, serving as models for their children.</p>","PeriodicalId":10837,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Brain","volume":"5 2","pages":"91-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35231302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}