The development of visual attention to the Ebbinghaus illusion across two cultures.

ABSTRACT: Selective attention typically becomes more refined with age, improving significantly from early to middle childhood. However, under certain conditions, such as the Ebbinghaus illusion task, younger children may display more focused selective attention than older children and adults. Cross-cultural differences have also been documented, with North American participants tending to focus selectively on central targets, while East Asian participants attending holistically and showing greater susceptibility to the illusion. Despite these findings, the physiological mechanisms underlying these age-related and cultural differences remain unclear. Specifically, does susceptibility to the illusion align with what we attend to? The present study investigated age-related and culture-related changes i

SUBMITTER: Senzaki S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868647 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature