"Americans are looking at the focal object more quickly and spend more time looking at it," he said. "The Chinese have more saccades [jerky eye movements]. They move their eyes more, especially back and forth between the object and the [background] field."
The finding suggests that East Asians literally spend more time putting objects into context than Americans do. The differences are not just reflected in how individuals recall and report their memories but in how they physically see an image in the first place.
Of course, the difference may be justified by physical peculiarities but but it seems to me that everything is deeper and mostly depends on the mental perception of the surrounding world via the prism of cultural layers each of the representatives has.