The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging and Culture  

Oleh:

Park, Denise C. ; Gutchess, Angela

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 15 no. 03 (Jun. 2006), page 105-108.
Topik: cognition; aging; culture; cognitive neuroscience
Fulltext: 02. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging and Culture.pdf (147.68KB)

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Research into the cognitive neuroscience of aging has revealed exciting and unexpected changes to the brain over the lifespan. However, studies have mostly been conducted on Western populations, raising doubts about the universality of age-related changes. Cross-cultural investigation of aging provides a window into the stability of changes with age due to neurobiology, as well as into the flexibility of aging due to life experiences that impact cognition. Behavioral findings suggest that different cultures process distinct aspects of information and employ diverse information-processing strategies. The study of aging allows us to identify those age-related neural changes that persist across cultures as well as the changes that are driven by culture-specific life experiences.

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