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"Across societies, inclination toward analytic over holistic thinking influence our attention, memory and perception, which in turn influence our performance even on tasks with objectively correct answers. For example after watching video clips of underwater scenes, East Asians remember the backgrounds and context in memory tests better than Americans. Eye tracking measurements reveal y. East Asians spent more time facially exploring parts of the scene beyond the focal or Central animals or objects. By contrast, American zeroed in on an tracked the center of attention while ignoring the context and background. These patterns of attention shaped what participants remember.:

From The WEIRDest People In the World, p. 55