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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...

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Developing Cultural Differences in Face Processing

Kelly, David J. ; Liu, Shaoying ; Rodger, Helen ; Miellet, Sebastien ; Ge, Liezhong ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Developmental Science, 2011, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 1176-1184

Perception and eye movements are affected by culture. Adults from Eastern societies (e.g. China) display a disposition to process information holistically, whereas individuals from Western societies (e.g. Britain) process information analytically. Recently, this pattern of cultural differences has been extended to face processing. Adults from Eastern cultures fixate centrally towards the nose...