Japanese and American students performed a change-blindness task.The results indicated that ______.

A) Japanese and American students performed similarly
B) Japanese students noticed more changes than American students did
C) American students noticed more changes than Japanese students did
D) Japanese students noticed more changes in the background,whereas American students noticed more focal changes

Research in cultural psychology suggests that individuals from East Asian cultures (e.g., Japan) tend to have a more holistic perceptual style, paying more attention to context and relationships in the environment, whereas individuals from Western cultures (e.g., the United States) tend to focus more on individual objects or focal points. This difference in perceptual style could explain why Japanese students might notice more changes in the background and American students might notice more focal changes in a change-blindness task.