Making sense of sensory perceptions across languages and cultures

Trail making across languages.

The effects of different language backgrounds on trail making tasks were examined in this study. The measures adopted were the Color Trails Test (CTT) and the Trail Making Test (TMT), the former being the culturally fair analogue of the latter. Eighty-four right-handed participants belonging to the Chinese-English Bilingual (CEB) and English Monolingual (EM) groups participated in this study. T...

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Causality and Agency Across Cultures and Languages

Why does wood float on water? What made Jim shout at me, and why had he to be so offending? Who is responsible for my son’s sickness? And why should incest be wrong? All these questions share one important feature: They ask for causal explanations. Causality is a core concept in our attempts to make sense of the physical world and of social interactions; and this makes causal cognition a topic ...

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Perceptions of Aging 1 Running head: PERCEPTIONS OF AGING ACROSS 26 CULTURES Co Perceptions of Aging across 26 Cultures and their Culture-Level Associates

College students (N = 3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of agerelated changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There was widespread cross-cultural consensus regarding the expected direction of aging trajectories with (1) perceived declines in societal views of aging, physical attractiveness, th...