The Influence of Culture on Memory

The study of cognition across cultures offers a useful approach to both identifying bottlenecks in information processing and suggesting culturespecific strategies to alleviate these limitations. The recent emphasis on applying cognitive neuroscience methods to the study of culture further aids in specifying which processes differ cross-culturally. By localizing cultural differences to distinct neural regions, the comparison of cultural groups helps to identify candidate information processing mechanisms that can be made more efficient with augmented cognition and highlights the unique solutions that will be required for different groups of information processors.

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