Culture and Art

Brinkman and colleagues found that people from Austria and from Japan literally use their eyes differently when looking at European and Japanese art and photographs. The researchers report that “Possibly those differences are related to reading/writing systems, but also to different cognitive expectations toward pictures: the equivalence of image and calligraphy in the Japanese tradition versus the habit to make and see pictures as window-like perspectival views of reality in the European Renaissance tradition. . . . for Japanese (and…

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