Cultural Biases in Which Senses and Senses Deployed How

In these entries, I write a fair amount about cultural differences in favored sensorial categories, especially sound versus sight. At a higher level, I talk about interoception versus exteroception and how those are culturally favored (or not). I write about how sight's biases lean us toward certain tendencies: don't see around corners, work in snapshots, thrust forward. And at a finer grain, I note a difference in how we use a particular sense, such as sight. How, in seeing, you can choose a peripheral gaze or a foveal focus, and that this in turn creates a cascading effect throughout your organism — not just neural and cognitive but also endocrine, immune, and cardiovascular. I point out that the emphasis on targeted objects versus context appears to be cultural, and that this is socialized early and then apparently seeps into other processing domains. My core idea is that you can feel the differences as you shift from one sensorial batch of habits to another, and that you have influence over that shift.