The Culture and Human Behavior box "Ways of Seeing" discusses research on differences in perception between collectivistic cultures and individualistic cultures. When asked to judge the relative and absolute lengths of lines while in an fMRI scanner, research participants from East Asia showed:

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Research participants from East Asia showed greater brain activation during absolute judgments. This suggests that people from collectivistic cultures may focus more on contextual factors, such as the overall length of lines, rather than the specific lengths of individual lines when making judgments.

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