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Polyphasic Pictorial Perception

Failure to Confirm the Effect of Language

University of Rhodesia

J. B. Deregowski

University of Aberdeen

This study tests a hypothesis arising from the authors' previous work, that writing picture-interpretation stories in a second language makes subjects more stimulus-bound and therefore more likely to fragment in time the events occurring in the picture (polyphasic perception). Rhodesian upper primary-school children responded to the same pictures in either English or Shona. No relationship between language medium and stimulus-binding, or between stimulus-binding and polyphasic responding, was observed. Furthermore, the previously observed preponderance of polyphasic responses by African children failed to appear, and a second sample of "Colored" and "Asian" children gave fewer polyphasic responses than Western children normally do. The lack of evidence for a truly perceptual phenomenon is underlined.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 111-116 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/002202217671009


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