The Development of Context-Sensitive Attention in Urban and Rural Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Human perception differs profoundly between individuals from different cultures. In the present study, we investigated the development of context-sensitive attention (the relative focus on context elements of a visual scene) in a large sample (N = 297) of 5- to 15-year-olds and young adults from rural and urban Brazil, namely from agricultural villages in the Amazon region and the city of São Paulo. We applied several visual tasks which assess context-sensitive attention, including an optical illusion, a picture description, a picture recognition and a facial emotion judgment task. The results revealed that children and adults from the urban sample had a higher level of context-sensitive attention, when compared to children and adults from the rural sample. In particular, participan

SUBMITTER: Mavridis P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7393234 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature