Cultural Differences in Visual Contents in Picture Books

Kuwabara, Megumi; Alonso, J. Blanco; Ayala, Darlene

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00304

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“…Beyond such differences in social practices and their implications for social learning, it would be of particular relevance to determine what other mechanisms might play a role in the development of attention in various cultures, including the motivational and functional implications associated with specific attentional styles in a given cultural context, to further understand the complex and dynamic process (Miyamoto, 2013) that sets off the culturally variable trajectories leading to the differences found in adults. For example, there is evidence that physical environments vary across cultures in the sense that Japanese environments tend to be visually more crowded and complex than U.S.-American environments (Kuwabara et al, 2020; Miyamoto et al, 2006). As indicated by priming studies, this might be a further factor shaping attentional routines as the exposure to more complex Japanese scenes promotes a more holistic attention style than less complex U.S.-American scenes (Miyamoto et al, 2006; Ueda & Komiya, 2012).…”

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The socialization of visual attention: Training effects of verbal attention guidance in urban German children.

Jurkat,

Gutknecht-Stöhr,

Kärtner

2024

Developmental Psychology

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Verbal attention guidance is assumed to be an important cultural tool contributing to the development of culture-specific visual attention styles in childhood. We used a training approach to test whether verbal attention guidance in a 10 day app-based training that accentuates either analytic or holistic processing has the power to produce enduring effects on 6- to 7-year-old urban German children’s (N = 42, 22 female, 20 male) attention in a picture description task, a single-choice recognition task and a change blindness task. Results indicate that verbal attention guidance is effective in influencing children’s attention styles across indicators. These findings provide convergent evidence for the assumption that verbal attention guidance plays a central role in the long-term socialization of attention styles.

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The socialization of visual attention: Training effects of verbal attention guidance in urban German children.

Jurkat,

Gutknecht-Stöhr,

Kärtner

2024

Developmental Psychology

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“…It may thus be critical for future research in developmental science, to take into account different attention systems ( Posner and Petersen, 1990 ; Raz and Buhle, 2006 ) and to identify different developmental processes that shape different facets of human visual attention across cultures ( Köster and Kärtner, 2019 ). For instance, it is important to better understand early visual experiences children are exposed to in different cultures ( Miyamoto et al, 2006 ; see also Kuwabara et al, 2020 ), but also specific social interaction experiences, which may lead to different developmental pathways ( Keller and Kärtner, 2013 ). For example, the way close others structure children’s visual attention in early development and thereby adjust their attentional focus to different elements of the physical and social environment ( Köster and Kärtner, 2018 ; Rogoff, 2003 ).…”

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The Development of Context-Sensitive Attention in Urban and Rural Brazil

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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 São 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 São 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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“…Cultural products allow people to embody and manifest their culture (Morling & Lamoreaux, 2008). For example, in conference posters in academia (Wang et al, 2012), visual contents in picture books (Kuwabara et al, 2020), profile images on social media (Huang & Park, 2013), laypeople’s artworks under experimental setting (Ishii et al, 2014; Masuda, Gonzalez, et al, 2008; Senzaki et al, 2014), and city environments (Miyamoto et al, 2006). Regarding the appreciation of visual arts, a cultural-match effect has been suggested: People tend to appreciate artworks from the same culture more than they appreciate artworks from a different culture (Bao et al, 2016).…”

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Cultural-match effect on the appreciation of traditional and contemporary visual arts: Evidence from Poland and Hong Kong.

Ho¹,

Szubielska²,

Kopiś-Posiej³

2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Cultural variations in psychological processes are well recognized by cross-cultural psychology. Cultural products-including the visual arts-present one medium through which people may manifest their dominant culture. The present research investigates the appreciation of visual arts cross-culturally by hypothesizing and testing a cultural-match effect (i.e., people tend to appreciate same-culture artworks more than they appreciate different-culture artworks). Additionally, the present work considers the factors of historical period and art medium that have been overlooked in previous research. A mixed 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 design, 97 Western and 91 Eastern naïve viewers from Poland and Hong Kong were presented with 128 visual artworks varying in artwork culture (West vs. East), historical period (traditional vs. contemporary), and art medium (painting vs. mural). In a repeated measures fashion, the participants evaluated each artwork in terms of art identification, liking, understanding, and familiarity, and their art expertise and art interest were also measured. Supporting the hypothesis, the Polish group tended to appreciate Western (i.e., same-culture) artworks more than Eastern (i.e., different-culture) artworks. However, contrary to our prediction, the Hong Kong group also tended to appreciate Western (i.e., different-culture) artworks more than Eastern (i.e., same-culture) artworks, and that might be attributed to the Western influence Hong Kong had received during its British colonial years. Furthermore, cultural-match effect did not readily generalize across historical periods nor across art media. Potential confounding of art expertise and art interest as well as limitations and future directions are discussed.

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Cultural Differences in Visual Contents in Picture Books

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

The socialization of visual attention: Training effects of verbal attention guidance in urban German children.

The socialization of visual attention: Training effects of verbal attention guidance in urban German children.

The Development of Context-Sensitive Attention in Urban and Rural Brazil

Cultural-match effect on the appreciation of traditional and contemporary visual arts: Evidence from Poland and Hong Kong.

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