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SUMMARY:Is the East-West Education Stereotype True? An Inter-generational 
 Study of Cognitive Skills in the UK and Hong Kong - Michelle Ellefson
DTSTART:20161108T210000Z
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CONTACT:Michael Kosicki
DESCRIPTION:\nWhile Asian preschoolers acquire executive functions (EFs) e
 arlier than their Western counterparts (e.g.\, Sabbagh\, Xu\, Carlson\, Mo
 ses & Lee 2006)\, little is known about whether this advantage persists in
 to later childhood and adulthood. Addressing this gap\, the current study 
 presented four computerised executive function (EF) tasks (providing measu
 res of inhibition\, working memory\, cognitive flexibility and planning) t
 o a large sample (n = 1\,427) of 9- to 16-year-olds and their parents livi
 ng in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong. Highlighting the importance of 
 combining developmental and cultural perspectives\, our findings showed bo
 th similarities and contrasts across sites. Specifically\, adult EF perfor
 mance did not differ across sites and age-related changes in EF for both c
 hildren and parents as well as a modest intergenerational correlation appe
 ared culturally invariant. In contrast\, school-aged children and young ad
 olescents in Hong Kong outperformed their UK counterparts on all four EF t
 asks\, consistent with previous findings from preschool children. 
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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