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Culture and urbanisation 1:perceptual biases (Miyamato et al., 2006 (can…
Culture and urbanisation 1:perceptual biases
Nisbett et al., 2001
East-Asia: collectivist societies, holistic cognition, global bias
West: individualistic societies, analytic cognition, local bias
Himba: Segall et al., 1996 - collectivist society, Caparos et al., 2012 - local bias found in similarity match task
Attentional modes and local global perceptual bias
McGilchrist 2010: diffuse=global, focused=local
Dale and Arnell 2010: individuals with smaller Ab (and possibly less focus) show more global processing
Miyamato et al., 2006
can differences in the physical environment (in different cultures) shape perceptual bias
participants asked to signal the differences between sequences; focal vs contextual
American and Japanese participants both better at focal
Both American and Japanese participants primed with Japanese scenes attended to more contextual information than those primed with American scenes
culturally specific patterns of attention may be at least partially due to perceptual environment
Participants judge larger cities as being more cluttered so could the uncluttered nature of the perceptual environment of the Himba (savanna) promote spatially focused attention and local bias
Caparos et al., 2012
participants were: traditional Himba, urbanised Himba, from London, from Tokyo.
found global choice increased with increase visual clutter
similarity matching navon task
when traditional Himba separated into number of visits to nearest town (0-3+) found global choice increase with number of visits
perceptual bias and attention
according to current thinking linking perceptual bias to attention (eg McKone et al 2010) and if clutter really is the driving factor behind effects of urbanisation on perceptual bias then traditional Himba should be better at attending local information
McKone et al., 2010
navon local global search task as a measure of local global bias, E vs H target
bias operationalised as difference between RT in finding local and global targets
absence of significant correlations in the predicted direction casts doubt on the idea that collectivism vs individualism shape local global differences
Caparos et al., 2013
found Himba excel at local and global selective attention meaning either: perceptual bia and attention are not actually related OR clutter is not the key