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ArticlePloS one2017

Cultural differences in room size perception.

Aurelie Saulton, Heinrich H Bülthoff, Stephan de la Rosa, Trevor J Dodds

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aurelie SaultonHuman Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-5588
Heinrich H BülthoffHuman Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.
Stephan de la RosaHuman Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.
Trevor J DoddsHuman Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cultural differences in spatial perception have been little investigated, which gives rise to the impression that spatial cognitive processes might be universal. Contrary to this idea, we demonstrate cultural differences in spatial volume perception of computer generated rooms between Germans and South Koreans. We used a psychophysical task in which participants had to judge whether a rectangular room was larger or smaller than a square room of reference. We systematically varied the room rectangularity (depth to width aspect ratio) and the viewpoint (middle of the short wall vs. long wall) from which the room was viewed. South Koreans were significantly less biased by room rectangularity and viewpoint than their German counterparts. These results are in line with previous notions of general cognitive processing strategies being more context dependent in East Asian societies than Western ones. We point to the necessity of considering culturally-specific cognitive processing strategies in visual spatial cognition research.

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Cultural CharacteristicsSize PerceptionAdultFemaleGermanyHumansMalePsychophysicsRepublic of KoreaYoung Adult

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PMID28426729
PMCPMC5398688

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