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  • Cross-cultural Psychology

Background:

  • Previous research indicates East Asian individuals show greater sensitivity to speaker perspective in resolving ambiguous expressions compared to Westerners.
  • This cultural difference has been attributed to enhanced social information integration during language processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the underlying mechanisms of cultural differences in resolving referentially ambiguous expressions.
  • To determine if cultural variations stem from social information integration or differential error correction during language processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a time-series analysis of visual-world eye-tracking data.
  • Examined referential processing in Chinese and U.S. participants when encountering ambiguous expressions.

Main Results:

  • Both cultural groups exhibited equivalent egocentric interference in the early stages of referential processing.
  • Chinese participants demonstrated significantly earlier and more effective suppression of this interference compared to Western participants.
  • Divergence in processing occurred late, between 600 and 1400 ms, suggesting cultural modulation of later processing stages.

Conclusions:

  • Cultural differences in resolving ambiguous language arise from differential correction mechanisms, not superior social information integration.
  • Early language processing appears to involve a universal, rapid-but-less-accurate system.
  • Later processing stages are influenced by cultural demands, allowing for flexible response strategies.