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Cultural Variations in Human Cognition

Explore how Westerners and Asians perceive the world differently, with Westerners focusing on the focal object and Asians attending to the broader surroundings and object-field relations.

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Cultural Variations in Human Cognition

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  1. "Human cognition is not everywhere the same” • Westerners and Asians literally see different worlds. The East sees sees a bigger Picture, the west tends to focus • “Westerners pay attention to the focal object, while Asians attend more broadly -- to the overall surroundings and to the relations between the object and the field." • These generalizations seem to hold even though Eastern and Western countries each represent many different cultures and traditions.

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