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East and West: Seeing the world through different lenses

By Carey Goldberg
The Boston Globe
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

BOSTON: East is East and West is West, and the difference between them
is starting to turn up even on brain scanners.

New brain research is adding high-tech evidence to what lower-tech
psychology experiments have found for years: Culture can affect not just
language and custom, but how people experience the world at stunningly
basic levels - what they see when they look at a city street, for
example, or even how they perceive a simple line in a square.

Western culture, they have found, conditions people to think of
themselves as highly independent entities. And when looking at scenes,
Westerners tend to focus on central objects more than on their surroundings.

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