Culture et cognition

/'1 Context and Cognition Contexte Et Cognition

Context and cognition: Introduction (Contexte et cognition: introduction) r Guy Tiberghien 105 Context and sensory processes: ln search of basic laws (Contexte et processus senso-~ riels : à la recherche des lois fondamentales) t .' Lawrence E. Marks 121 \, Visual perception in context (La perception visuelle en contexte) ~ Claude Bonnet 137 Context effects in episodic memory: a review (Les eff...

Culture and Cognition

Recent work in cognitive psychology and social cognition bears heavily on concerns of sociologists of culture. Cognitive research confirms views of culture as fragmented; clarifies the roles of institutions and agency; and illuminates supraindividual aspects of culture. Individuals experience culture as disparate bits of information a d as schematic structures that organize that information. Cu...

Culture and Cognition 2

Many of the cognitive psychologists have assumed that human mind is universal, and have inferred that, even if they observe cultural differences, they are the consequences of different cultural stimuli. However, some social psychologists have demonstrated cultural differences in cognition (e.g., Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001). They abandon the universality view and proposed an interac...

Culture and Cognition

Culture as Situated Cognition

Culture-as-situated-cognition (CSC) theory proposes that culture can be thought of at three levels. At the highest level, culture is a human universal, a “good enough” solution to universal needs. At the intermediate level, culture is a specific meaning-making framework, a “mindset” that influences what is attended to, which goals or mental procedure is salient. At the most proximal level, cult...