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August 24, 2005
Link: A visual Sapir-Whorf?
Does culture affect how we see the world? Researchers from the University of Michigan think so, according to this AP article reproduced on Wired.com:Asians and North Americans really do see the world differently. Shown a photograph, North American students of European background paid more attention to the object in the foreground of a scene, while students from China spent more time studying the background and taking in the whole scene, according to University of Michigan researchers.
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Posted by nasukaren at August 24, 2005 11:36 PM
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsNot too surprising - there were studies done in Japan in the late 70s about how reading kanji stimulated both hemispheres of the brain, whereas reading roman alphabet or katakana was less symmetrical. Posted by: Fazal Majid at August 25, 2005 3:39 AM Post a comment |
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