Cultural variations in global and local attention and eye-movement patterns during the perception of complex visual scenes: Comparison of Czech and Taiwanese university students

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43310/20:43918496

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242501" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242501</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242501" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0242501</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cultural variations in global and local attention and eye-movement patterns during the perception of complex visual scenes: Comparison of Czech and Taiwanese university students

Original language description

Previous research on cross-cultural differences in visual attention has been inconclusive. Some studies have suggested the existence of systematic differences in global and local attention and context sensitivity, while others have produced negative or mixed results. The objective in this study was to examine the similarities and differences in holistic and analytic cognitive styles in a sample of Czech and Taiwanese university students. Two cognitive tasks were conducted: a Compound Figures Test and a free-viewing scene perception task which manipulated several focal objects and measured eye-movement patterns. An analysis of the reaction times in the Compound Figures Test showed no clear differences between either sample. An analysis of eye-movement metrics showed certain differences between the samples. While Czechs tended to focus relatively more on the focal objects measured by the number of fixations, the Taiwanese subjects spent more time fixating on the background. The results were consistent for scenes with one or two focal objects. The results of a correlation analysis of both tasks showed that they were unrelated. These results showed certain differences between the samples in visual perception but were not as systematic as the theory of holistic and analytic cognitive styles would suggest. An alternative model of cross-cultural differences in cognition and perception is discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GC19-09265J" target="_blank" >GC19-09265J: The influence of socio-cultural factors and writing system on perception and cognition of complex visual stimuli</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1-22

UT code for WoS article

000595266800029

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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