https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/16/culture-influences-brain-funct/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/16/culture-influences-brain-funct/#comment-2857 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:44:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/16/culture-influences-brain-funct/#comment-2857 It isn’t much of a surprise that people of different cultures think differently; but I find it rather fascinating that there is a visible, and simple no less, correspondence between cultural attributes and performance on a rather abstract task.If the task had something to do with, say, evaluating social data, it wouldn’t be nearly as notable; but the fact that our way of thinking about society and social interactions correlates nicely with how we think about quite abstract geometric figures is really quite cool.

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