Cultural differences in allocation of attention in visual information processing

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-360

  Boduroglu, Aysecan ^a   Shah, Priti ^b   Nisbett, Richard E ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Context; Culture; East Asian; Visual working memory; Western

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749093083     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108331005     Document Type: Article

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