Framing attention in Japanese and American comics: Cross-cultural differences in attentional structure

Research on visual attention has shown that Americans tend to focus more on focal objects of a scene while Asians attend to the surrounding environment. The panels of comic books— the narrative frames in sequential images—highlight aspects of a scene comparably to how attention becomes focused on pa...

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Main Authors: Neil eCohn, Amaro eTaylor-Weiner, Suzanne eGrossman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00349/full