What Simon "knows" about cultural differences: The influence of cultural orientation and traffic directionality on spatial compatibility effects.
Previous research has suggested that culture influences perception and attention. These studies have typically involved comparisons of Westerners with East Asians, motivated by assumed differences in the cultures' self-concept or position on the individualism-collectivism spectrum. However, other po...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 526 - 543 |
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