DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ultimatum Game, Middleground, Temporoparietal Junction
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Nisbe t t : c ul t u re an d p oin t o f v iew. Westerners focus on specific object, place it in a category, define its attributes, and strive to figure out what rules are responsible for its behaviour. East asians have a broader perceptual field, emphasis is placed on the bigger picture, with a focus on relationships between the objects, rather than on the individual objects themselves. Used logic for cognitive operations (i. e. geometry) Metaphysics explained an object"s behaviour with reference to its 1) properties & 2) category. Matter composed of discrete objects or atoms. Analytic thought focus on salient object; knowing rules that govern the object"s behaviour gave people sense of control over the object. Never formalized logic (no progress in geometry) Understood action as occurring in a field of forces. World is constantly changing, there is dynamic flow between opposites (yin & yang of tao)
