Merkley Tricia L, Esopenko Carrie, Zizak Vanessa S, Bilder Robert M, Strutt Adriana M, Tate David F, Irimia Andrei
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University.
Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
Neuropsychology. 2023 Mar;37(3):237-246. doi: 10.1037/neu0000818. Epub 2022 May 12.
In this position article, we highlight the importance of considering cultural and linguistic variables that influence neuropsychological test performance and the possible moderating impact on our understanding of brain/behavior relationships. Increasingly, neuropsychologists are realizing that cultural and language differences between countries, regions, and ethnic groups influence neuropsychological outcomes, as test scores may not have the same interpretative meaning across cultures. Furthermore, attempts to apply the same norms across diverse populations without accounting for culture and language variations will result in detrimental ethical dilemmas, such as misdiagnosis of clinical conditions and inaccurate interpretations of research outcomes. Given the lack of normative data for ethnically and linguistically diverse communities, it is often challenging to merge data across diverse populations to investigate research questions of global significance. Methodological Considerations: We highlight some of the inherent challenges, limitations, and opportunities for efforts to harmonize cross-cultural neuropsychological data. We also explore some of the cultural factors that should be considered when attempting to harmonize cross-cultural neuropsychological data, sources of variance that should be accounted for in data analyses, and the need to identify evaluative criteria for interpreting data outcomes of cross-cultural harmonization approaches.
In the future, it will be important to further solidify principles for aggregating data across diverse cultural and linguistic cohorts, validate whether assumptions are being satisfied regarding the relationship between neuropsychological measures and the brain and/or behavior of individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as methods for evaluating relative successful validation for data harmonization efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
在这篇立场文章中，我们强调了考虑影响神经心理测试表现的文化和语言变量的重要性，以及这些变量对我们理解大脑/行为关系可能产生的调节作用。越来越多的神经心理学家意识到，国家、地区和种族群体之间的文化和语言差异会影响神经心理测试结果，因为测试分数在不同文化中的解释意义可能并不相同。此外，在不考虑文化和语言差异的情况下，试图将相同的常模应用于不同人群，将会导致有害的伦理困境，比如临床状况的误诊以及研究结果的错误解读。鉴于缺乏针对不同种族和语言群体的常模数据，整合不同人群的数据以研究具有全球意义的研究问题往往具有挑战性。方法学考量：我们强调了在整合跨文化神经心理数据方面所面临的一些内在挑战、限制和机遇。我们还探讨了在尝试整合跨文化神经心理数据时应考虑的一些文化因素、数据分析中应考虑的方差来源，以及确定跨文化整合方法数据结果解释的评估标准的必要性。
未来，进一步巩固跨不同文化和语言群体汇总数据的原则、验证关于神经心理测量与来自不同文化和语言背景个体的大脑和/或行为之间关系的假设是否得到满足，以及评估数据整合工作相对成功验证的方法，将非常重要。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
