Holistic context again
http://smash.psych.nyu.edu/courses/spring10/lhc/materials/nisbett.pdfBoth Japanese children and American children see context, but by age 5 - Americans children begin to focus more on salient objects. Asians more likely to see situation/context, whereas, Americans focus on main ideas.
Overall, Japanese subjects reported 60 percent more information about the context than did Americans