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This topic is hard to search for, because the word "perspective" in the abstract sense is commonly used to talk about culture, but almost nothing about "linear

This topic is hard to search for, because the word "perspective" in the abstract sense is commonly used to talk about culture, but almost nothing about "linear perspective". Cultural Differences In Depth Perception - https://www.chegg.com/learn/psychology/introduction-to-psychology/cultural-differences-in-depth-perception#influence-of-culture-in-perception https://www.chegg.com/learn/psychology/introduction-to-psych...: Cultural Differences in the Perception of a Three-Dimensional Ponzo Illusion - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cultural-Differences-in-the-Perception-of-a-Ponzo-Brislin-Keating/7a13596aa86337437046f1a4bd3d6a85ed69e8bf https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cultural-Differences-i... Development of Pictorial Depth Perception: Cross-Cultural Replications - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1128092 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1128092

dahart 4y ago
It seems likely there could be subjective cultural differences in perception when there are subjective cultural cues in the content/image at hand, while at the same time the biology and physiology of our visual system is human in nature and doesn’t vary culturally, and the geometry and physics of light and perspective is universal. The hard part of any of this research is figuring out how to control for cultural cues in the first place in order to establish what parts are biological and what parts are learned and cultural. It’s easier to search for cultural differences in color perception. There is an ongoing debate about whether differences in color names across languages indicates that cultures perceive colors differently. https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/ https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/ FWIW I was hoping for something explanatory in that Chegg article, but it’s so hand-wavy and disconnected I can’t help but feel like it’s tickling my BS mater, like a lot. It is trying to imply connections between cultural perception and biology, but doesn’t manage to establish anything. A bunch of the sentences use big words but say nothing. The third link you gave, that last paper’s summary point is that they do not find major cultural differences in depth perception. “The absence of marked cultural differences suggests that the phenomena under study may be universal in nature.”

dahart 4y ago

It seems likely there could be subjective cultural differences in perception when there are subjective cultural cues in the content/image at hand, while at the same time the biology and physiology of our visual system is human in nature and doesn’t vary culturally, and the geometry and physics of light and perspective is universal. The hard part of any of this research is figuring out how to control for cultural cues in the first place in order to establish what parts are biological and what parts are learned and cultural. It’s easier to search for cultural differences in color perception. There is an ongoing debate about whether differences in color names across languages indicates that cultures perceive colors differently. https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/ https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/ FWIW I was hoping for something explanatory in that Chegg article, but it’s so hand-wavy and disconnected I can’t help but feel like it’s tickling my BS mater, like a lot. It is trying to imply connections between cultural perception and biology, but doesn’t manage to establish anything. A bunch of the sentences use big words but say nothing. The third link you gave, that last paper’s summary point is that they do not find major cultural differences in depth perception. “The absence of marked cultural differences suggests that the phenomena under study may be universal in nature.”