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How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration
Individuals from East Asian (Chinese) backgrounds have been shown to exhibit greater sensitivity to a speaker’s perspective than Western (U.S.) participants when resolving referentially ambiguous expressions. We show that this cultural difference does not reflect better integration of social informa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00822 |
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author | Wu, Shali Barr, Dale J. Gann, Timothy M. Keysar, Boaz |
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description | Individuals from East Asian (Chinese) backgrounds have been shown to exhibit greater sensitivity to a speaker’s perspective than Western (U.S.) participants when resolving referentially ambiguous expressions. We show that this cultural difference does not reflect better integration of social information during language processing, but rather is the result of differential correction: in the earliest moments of referential processing, Chinese participants showed equivalent egocentric interference to Westerners, but managed to suppress the interference earlier and more effectively. A time-series analysis of visual-world eye-tracking data found that the two cultural groups diverged extremely late in processing, between 600 and 1400 ms after the onset of egocentric interference. We suggest that the early moments of referential processing reflect the operation of a universal stratum of processing that provides rapid ambiguity resolution at the cost of accuracy and flexibility. Late components, in contrast, reflect the mapping of outputs from referential processes to decision-making and action planning systems, allowing for a flexibility in responding that is molded by culturally specific demands. |
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spelling | pubmed-38453412013-12-13 How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration Wu, Shali Barr, Dale J. Gann, Timothy M. Keysar, Boaz Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Individuals from East Asian (Chinese) backgrounds have been shown to exhibit greater sensitivity to a speaker’s perspective than Western (U.S.) participants when resolving referentially ambiguous expressions. We show that this cultural difference does not reflect better integration of social information during language processing, but rather is the result of differential correction: in the earliest moments of referential processing, Chinese participants showed equivalent egocentric interference to Westerners, but managed to suppress the interference earlier and more effectively. A time-series analysis of visual-world eye-tracking data found that the two cultural groups diverged extremely late in processing, between 600 and 1400 ms after the onset of egocentric interference. We suggest that the early moments of referential processing reflect the operation of a universal stratum of processing that provides rapid ambiguity resolution at the cost of accuracy and flexibility. Late components, in contrast, reflect the mapping of outputs from referential processes to decision-making and action planning systems, allowing for a flexibility in responding that is molded by culturally specific demands. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3845341/ /pubmed/24348368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00822 Text en Copyright © 2013 Wu, Barr, Gann and Keysar. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Wu, Shali Barr, Dale J. Gann, Timothy M. Keysar, Boaz How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title | How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title_full | How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title_fullStr | How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title_full_unstemmed | How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title_short | How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
title_sort | how culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00822 |
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