In an Experiment Investigating the Effect of Culture on Perception

question 54

True/False

In an experiment investigating the effect of culture on perception, participants from the United States and participants from East Asia were found to use different brain areas when making judgments about relative line length, but not when making judgments about absolute line length.

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