Culture and change blindness

Cognitive Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 381-399

  Masuda, Takahiko ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Americans; Attention; Change blindness; Change detection; Cultural psychology; Culture; Holistic vs. Analytic thought; Japanese

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646453994     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_63     Document Type: Article

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