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