Not so different after all? An event-related potential study on item and source memory for object-scene pairs in German and Chinese young adults

Abstract

In recent years, several cross-cultural studies reported that Westerners focus more on central aspects of a scene (e.g., an object) relative to peripheral aspects (e.g., the background), whereas Easterners more evenly allocate attention to central and peripheral aspects. In memory tasks, Easterners exhibit worse recognition for the central object when peripheral aspects are changed, whereas Westerners are less affected by peripheral changes. However, most of these studies rely on hit rates without correcting for response bias, whereas studies accounting for response bias failed to replicate cu

Abstract by Michael Weigl; Qi Shao; Qi Shao; Enno Wang; Zhiwei Zheng; Zhiwei Zheng; Juan Li; Juan Li, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

Related failures