Cultural diversity and saccade similarities: culture does not explain saccade latency differences between Chinese and Caucasian participants.

ABSTRACT: A central claim of cultural neuroscience is that the culture to which an individual belongs plays a key role in shaping basic cognitive processes and behaviours, including eye movement behaviour. We previously reported a robust difference in saccade behaviour between Chinese and Caucasian participants; Chinese participants are much more likely to execute low latency express saccades, in circumstances in which these are normally discouraged. To assess the extent to which this is the product of culture we compared a group of 70 Chinese overseas students (whose primary cultural exposure was that of mainland China), a group of 45 participants whose parents were Chinese but who themselves were brought up in the UK (whose primary cultural exposure was western European) and a group of 70 Caucasia

SUBMITTER: Knox PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3978040 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature