Looking at Art, Cultural Differences (10-06-23)
Trawinski and colleagues investigated how culture influences the way we look at art. After having British and Chinese people look at Western representational paintings they report that “Eye movements were recorded while participants viewed the paintings with each painting split into face, theme of the painting and its context regions of interest (ROIs). . . . With respect to the time-course of fixations across ROIs, Chinese participants focused more on the theme, and less on faces (and vice-versa for British participants), in a period starting around 2 s after the onset of viewing.