Our cross-cultural study in collaboration with Kyoto University investigates how early mother-infant interaction shapes culture specific visual perception processes. Images are shown to Japanese and Austrian mother-infant dyads while the infant's brain activity is recorded with electroencephalography. We ask mothers to guide the attention of their infants by pointing at the images so that we can compare babies’ brain activity in the two cultures. Our findings will help to understand the developmental origins of cross-cultural differences in perception and cognition, already emerging at such an early age. This project is partially funded by the Mobility Fellowship of Vienna University in a research partnership with Kyoto University in Japan.