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Culture Sculpts Neural Response to Visual Stimuli

Caption: The most striking finding was that the object areas of the older East Asian subjects responded much more weakly to novel stimuli (that is, the appearance of new objects in the pictures) than did those same brain regions in the older Americans.

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