Cultural and Developmental Influences on Overt Visual Attention to Videos.

ABSTRACT: Top-down influences on observers' overt attention and how they interact with the features of the visual environment have been extensively investigated, but the cultural and developmental aspects of these modulations have been understudied. In this study we investigated these effects for US and Yucatec Mayan infants, children, and adults. Mayan and US participants viewed videos of two actors performing daily Mayan and US tasks in the foreground and the background while their eyes were tracked. Our region of interest analysis showed that viewers from the US looked significantly less at the foreground activity and spent more time attending to the 'contextual' information (static background) compared to Mayans. To investigate how and what visual features of videos were attended to in a compreh

SUBMITTER: Kardan O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5595807 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature