Does culture influence holistic and analytic processing styles existing in the east and west?

• Main Author: Lum, Alycia We Ying.
• Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48749
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reviews recent cross-cultural evidences of holistic and analytic processing styles existing between East Asians and Westerners. Contrasting orientations present in low-order cognitive processes such as attentional patterns and higher order processes such as perceptual categorization and l...