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  • Cultural Studies

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  • Self-improvement motivation is crucial for adjustment but its neural underpinnings are less understood than extrinsic motivation.
  • Cultural variations in self-improvement motivation suggest potential differences in underlying neural processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate cultural differences in behavioral and neural mechanisms of self-improvement motivation during cognitive persistence.
  • To explore the role of frontostriatal circuitry in intrinsic motivation for self-improvement.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Behavioral cognitive control task with 71 American and 68 Chinese students.
  • Study 2: fMRI study of cognitive persistence in 14 American and 15 Chinese students.
  • Measured cognitive performance, self-improvement motivation, and brain activity (IFG, VS).

Main Results:

  • American students showed performance decline, while Chinese students maintained cognitive persistence.
  • Chinese participants displayed increasing activation and coupling between the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and ventral striatum (VS).
  • American participants showed consistently low activation and coupling in these frontostriatal regions.

Conclusions:

  • Cultural differences in self-improvement motivation influence cognitive persistence.
  • Frontostriatal circuitry (IFG-VS) may represent a neural mechanism for intrinsic motivation and cognitive persistence.
  • This neurobiological signal supports adaptive functions, enhancing motivation for self-improvement.