Department of Psychology, University of AlbertaDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan.
Cogn Sci. 2006 Mar 4;30(2):381-99. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_63.
Research on perception and cognition suggests that whereas East Asians view the world holistically, attending to the entire field and relations among objects, Westerners view the world analytically, focusing on the attributes of salient objects. These propositions were examined in the change-blindness paradigm. Research in that paradigm finds American participants to be more sensitive to changes in focal objects than to changes in the periphery or context. We anticipated that this would be less true for East Asians and that they would be more sensitive to context changes than would Americans. We presented participants with still photos and with animated vignettes having changes in focal object information and contextual information. Compared to Americans, East Asians were more sensitive to contextual changes than to focal object changes. These results suggest that there can be cultural variation in what may seem to be basic perceptual processes.
研究表明，在感知和认知方面，东亚人整体地看待世界，关注整个领域和物体之间的关系，而西方人则分析地看待世界，关注突出物体的属性。这些观点在变化盲视范式中得到了检验。该范式的研究发现，美国参与者对焦点物体的变化比周边或背景的变化更敏感。我们预计，东亚人对此的敏感度会降低，他们对背景变化的敏感度会高于美国人。我们向参与者展示了静态照片和动画小插图，其中焦点物体信息和背景信息发生了变化。与美国人相比，东亚人对背景变化的敏感度高于对焦点物体变化的敏感度。这些结果表明，在看似基本的感知过程中，可能存在文化差异。
