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Attention: Cultural factors

Culture is the values, beliefs, and behaviors passed from one generation to another within a social group (APA, 2023). While attention appears to be a universal cognitive process, with scans demonstrating biological correlates through brain activity and experiments suggesting a process of individual cognition, there are also cross-cultural differences in attention. Why is it often assumed that attention is a...

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