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Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in visual scenes.

Miellet, Sebastien ; Zhou, Xinyue ; He, Lingnan ; Rodger, Helen ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Journal of Vision, 2010, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 21

Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene...

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Social experience does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements

Kelly, David J. ; Jack, Rachael E. ; Miellet, Sebastien ; De Luca, Emanuele ; Foreman, Kay ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2011, vol. 2, p. 95

Adults from Eastern (e.g., China) and Western (e.g., USA) cultural groups display pronounced differences in a range of visual processing tasks. For example, the eye movement strategies used for information extraction during a variety of face processing tasks (e.g., identification and facial expressions of emotion categorization) differs across cultural groups. Currently, many of the...