Any improvement in some of these discouraging numbers about women in S.T.E.M. fields and in manufacturing will require concerted effort over a long period of time, but it must start early, when girls are considering which academic field to pursue and processing cultural signals about careers.
Although generally copying does not have a large impact in the uniform environment, we observe that cultural-level information processing can be important.
Unlike past studies of cultural differences involving visual processing, our study involved passive viewing rather than directed top-down processing (e.g., "memorize this picture", "make a judgment about this picture", etc).
Within this subset of digital processing of cultural heritage is the use of colorimetry to measure change in collections.
They would also like to express their gratitude to the contributors, for making this issue a hopefully important source of information within the existing body of knowledge in the field of image and video processing for cultural heritage.
The results demonstrate a robust cultural bias in visual processing even when external stimuli draw attention in an opposite manner to the cultural bias.
Recent neuroimaging studies have extended these findings of cultural differences in visual processing of scenes to patterns of neural activation in ventral visual and parietal regions of the brain.
This eye-tracking study investigated more specific mechanisms and the robustness of these cultural biases in visual processing when salient changes in the objects and backgrounds occur in complex pictures.
It is unclear whether these perceptual cultural differences in scene processing would generalize to the biologically relevant class of human faces, since faces are arguably the most important and salient visual stimulus a human ever encounters.
While these projections from our findings seem consistent with respect to the existent literature on culture [3], [5], they are still speculations that should be verified in studies of even more specific mechanisms of cultural differences in visual processing and the impact on memory for visual details.
