Project Description
How early mother-infant interaction shapes culture specific visual perception processes - a comparision between Japan and Austria
| Project leaders | Stefanie Höhl (Universität Wien), Moritz Köster (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Project partners | Shoji Itakura (Doshisha University, Kyoto University, Japan), Daiki Yamasaki (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Project members | Anna Bánki (Universität Wien) |
| Duration | since 2018 |
| Contact | stefanie.hoehl@univie.ac.at; moritz.koester@fu-berlin.de |
Our cross-cultural study in collaboration with Kyoto University investigated how early mother-infant interaction shapes culture specific visual perception processes. Images were shown to Japanese and Austrian mother-infant dyads while the infant's brain activity was recorded with electroencephalography. Our findings help to understand the developmental origins of cross-cultural differences in perception and cognition, already emerging at such an early age.
This project was partially funded by the Mobility Fellowship of Vienna University in a research partnership with Kyoto University in Japan.
Our project results
● Köster, M., Bánki, A., Yamasaki, D., Masaharu, K., Itakura, S. & Hoehl, S. (2023). Cross-cultural differences in visual object and background processing in the infant brain. Imaging Neuroscience, 1, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00038