title: Is Perceptual Priming Affected by Culture? A Study With German Middle-Class and Cameroonian Nso Farmer Children.
abstract: The authors explored priming in children from different cultural environments with the aim to provide further evidence for the robustness of the priming effect. Perceptual priming was assessed by a picture fragment completion task in 3-year-old German middle-class and Cameroonian Nso farmer children. As expected, 3-year-olds from both highly diverging cultural contexts under study showed a priming effect, and, moreover, the effect was of comparable size in both cultural contexts. Hence, the children profited similarly from priming, which was supported by the nonsignificant interaction between cultural background and identification performance as well as the analysis of absolute difference scores. However, a culture-specific difference regarding the level of picture identification was found in that German middle-class children identified target as well as control pictures with less perceptual information than children in the Nso sample. Explanations for the cross-cultural demonstration of the priming effect as well as for the culturally diverging levels on which priming occurs are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a University of Frankfurt , Germany.
authors.forename: Isabel Aline
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Vöhringer
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poloczek
authors.forename: Frauke
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: Bettina
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lamm
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teiser
authors.forename: Ina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fassbender
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Freitag
authors.forename: Janina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Suhrke
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teubert
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lohaus
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schwarzer
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knopf
mesh_terms: D002163:Cameroon / Q000208:ethnology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D012424:Rural Population; D012923:Social Class
keywords: cross-cultural memory processes; implicit memory; perceptual priming; young children