Cultural Influence on Cognition

Field work in India to study impact of literacy on visual and auditory perception

By Mrudula Arunkumar in Research Projects

March 9, 2022

MPI Cultural Brain Group

Reading and writing are cultural inventions that arose recently relative to the existence of the brain. This led to our brain having to adapt to the newer skills of reading and writing since it is not programmed bby default to do so.

(Huettig, Kolinsky & Lachmann,2018)

Facial Recognition

See paper here on whether learning to read affects visual perception of faces.

Mirror Discrimination

Learn more about this in our paper

Visual Illusions

Replicating a study done decades ago resulted in a different result. More details illustrated in our paper. Click here to read more.

Auditory Perception

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March 9, 2022
Length:
1 minute read, 96 words
Categories:
Research Projects
Tags:
Literacy
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