While the main source of knowledge of human cognition has come from
studies of information processing in a single culture, primarily
within the U.S. or within certain countries in Europe, much
research has also been conducted in other parts of the world. Can
the study of cognition across cultures lead us to interesting
conclusions about human cognition in general? Surely any general
theory of language processing, for example, must be able to explain
phenomena observed across cultures and not just within a single
one. This book is an attempt to look at this issue of universals in
thinking and understanding by providing a compendium of cross
cultural investigations in the four major areas of cognitive
psychology: (1) memory and knowledge representation, (2) language
processing, (3) perception, and (4) reasoning and problem solving.
The differences found across cultures are also fascinating and
extremely informative. A final chapter provides a summary of the
major findings reported in each of these areas.
The chapters included in this work were written for those
interested in cross-cultural psychology and also those with an
interest in cultural anthropology. The authors are well-known in
the areas of cross-cultural psychology, cognitive psychology,
linguistics, and anthropology. However, the reader need not be an
expert in any one of these fields to understand the conclusions and
implications of the work reported here.
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