WEEK 4 – How Culture Shapes Our Brains and Memories (21-27/10/2024)

First words

Culture is a great affect of brain shape with the difference of west and east people lifespan as brain parts are changed in size according to where is the person from. Such as Americans differantiate objects that thay saw before easier from East Asians and have better memory. This results is found by mnemonic discrimination analyses and exploration whole-brain analysis.

Analysis

If we look at the results of 55 american and 55 taiwanese, Americans can see easier the difference of items they see already before from Taiwanese. I think this result comes from lifestlye of Taiwanese that they don’t use items as much as Americans and their cultural lifestyle is differed lead to make them live in forest and village. Because even the Taiwaneses object catching performance differs between ages like older ones clearly lived more real lifespan than their childrens born with used phones. East and West Taiwanese are added in test and these two sides that only having cultural differences showed us they gave different results. Also we have lure stimuli test which tests old and new versions of images and here test is again ended with seperate results as well.

Other Results

For Mnemonic Discrimination and Target-Lure Discrimination, fusiform gyrus parts differed on Americans as positive correleation. Opossite for Taiwanese.
Taiwanese’s left superior parietal lob activity decreased as lure’s become less similar. Americans’ increased a little.
For Americans lure False Alarm activity decreased by lures become less familiar. Taiwaneses increased a little.
On right hippocampus, target-foil difference seen bigger.

In the rest of other tests there were no significant result seen.


Comments

2 responses to “WEEK 4 – How Culture Shapes Our Brains and Memories (21-27/10/2024)”

  1. dehan cagdas erdogan Avatar
    dehan cagdas erdogan

    I really liked the fact that for a blog, you analyzed and talked about the articles in a very clear way. Also your writing is really well-structured. Although I would have enjoyed to read your thoughts regarding the subject. I think you could have given a place in your writing to your stance on the matter.

  2. Refik TA Avatar
    Refik TA

    Hi, this is your first blog post for the Culture and Psychology course. It’s nice to see this! I’d like to mention a few points:
    * It seems like you haven’t updated the interface of your blog yet (for example, there are still default texts under different topics when we first visit the page).

    For the text:
    – I noticed that your text feels a bit too generic, as if it might have been generated by an AI. I strongly suggest taking the time to craft the message in your own words. Therefore, I will not give feedback on the text.

    Best,
    Refik

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