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19230871

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-4
pubmed:abstractText
Cross-cultural studies have shown that Asians exhibit less accessibility to episodic memories than Euro-Americans. This difference is often attributed to differential cognitive and social influences on memory retention, although there have been no empirical data concerning the underlying mechanism. Three studies were conducted to examine encoding and retention processes that may underlie the cultural difference in episodic recall. While Asians recalled fewer personal event episodes than Euro-Americans across different retention intervals, the two groups showed similar forgetting functions over time (Study 1). Asians also recalled fewer episodes of fictional events than Euro-Americans when the retention interval was kept to a minimum (Study 2). Finally, Asians perceived fewer discrete episodes than Euro-Americans when reading events in a narrative text (Study 3). Collectively, these findings suggest that the cultural difference in episodic recall may not be a mere consequence of memory retention but culture-specific perceptual processing and encoding. They have great theoretical, developmental, and clinical relevance.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1873-7838
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
111
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
123-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Are Asians forgetful? Perception, retention, and recall in episodic remembering.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA. qw23@cornell.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.