An American researcher interested in the influence of culture on aging says Americans and East Asians differ in styles of memory, with the former much more likely to recall a memory’s visual details rather than ephemera of the social sphere. Essentially, a person’s cultural environment not only shapes his or her experience but one’s living memory of events. Angela Gutchess, an assistant professor of psychology at Brandeis University, told The Daily Mail this month about recent unpublished experiments in memory, testing 65 students from the United States and East Asian countries including China, Japan, and Korea.
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