Researchers using eye-tracking equipment monitored the eye movements of u. s. and chinese students while they looked at similar photos that showed a single focal object against a realistic, complex background. the results, presented in the culture and human behavior box, "ways of seeing," showed that

I believe the answer is: compared to the U.S. students, the Chinese students used a more holistic perceptual style and tended to see and remember object and background as a single perceptual image.

According to them, This finding might explain why on average the score of students with Asian Ethnicity tend to better compared to other students in united states. People with more holistic perceptual style tend to utilise both their right and left brain to learn, which would make it easier for them to put something in their memory.

this null effect is caused by a weak manipulation and ineffective internal validity. in a scientific study, as the one dr. morimoto is trying to perfom, internal validity refers to the confidence placed in the cause-effect relationship and to how well an experiment is done and able to eliminate confounding variables.