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Mavridis, Pablo
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Kärtner, Joscha
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Chaves Cavalcante, Lilia Ieda
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Resende, Briseida
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Schuhmacher, Nils
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Köster, Moritz
dc.date.accessioned
2020-09-17T10:16:13Z
dc.date.available
2020-09-17T10:16:13Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/28301
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-28051
dc.description.abstract
Human perception differs profoundly between individuals from different cultures. In the present study, we investigated the development of context-sensitive attention (the relative focus on context elements of a visual scene) in a large sample (N= 297) of 5- to 15-year-olds and young adults from rural and urban Brazil, namely from agricultural villages in the Amazon region and the city of Sao Paulo. We applied several visual tasks which assess context-sensitive attention, including an optical illusion, a picture description, a picture recognition and a facial emotion judgment task. The results revealed that children and adults from the urban sample had a higher level of context-sensitive attention, when compared to children and adults from the rural sample. In particular, participants from Sao Paulo were more easily deceived by the context elements in an optical illusion task and remembered more context elements in a recognition task than participants from rural Amazon villages. In these two tasks, context-sensitivity increased with age. However, we did not find a cultural difference in the picture description and the facial emotion judgment task. These findings support the idea that visual information processing is highly dependent on the culture-specific learning environments from very early in development. Specifically, they are more consistent with accounts that emphasize the role of the visual environment, than with the social orientation account. However, they also highlight that further research is needed to disentangle the diverse factors that may influence the early development of visual attention, which underlie culture-specific developmental pathways.
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10 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
holistic and analytic perception
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context-sensitivity
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development of visual attention
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cognitive development
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cross-cultural comparison
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urban versus rural context
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100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
The Development of Context-Sensitive Attention in Urban and Rural Brazil
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
1623
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01623
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Frontiers in Psychology
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
11
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01623
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
refubium.affiliation.other
Arbeitsbereich Kulturvergleichende Entwicklungspsychologie
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1664-1078
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