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ReducedDistractibilityinaRemoteCulture JanW.deFockert*,SergeCaparos,KarinaJ.Linnell,JulesDavidoff DepartmentofPsychology,Goldsmiths,UniversityofLondon,London,UnitedKingdom Abstract Background:Invisualprocessing,therearemarkedculturaldifferencesinthetendencytoadopteitheraglobalorlocal processingstyle.Aremoteculture(theHimba)hasrecentlybeenreportedtohaveagreaterlocalbiasinvisualprocessing thanWesterners.Herewegivethefirstevidencethatagreater,andremarkable,attentionalselectivityprovidesthebasisfor thislocalbias. Methodology/Principal Findings: In Experiment 1, Eriksen-type flanker interference was measured in the Himba and in Western controls. In both groups, responses to the direction of a task-relevant target arrow were affected by the compatibility of task-irrelevant distractor arrows. However, the Himba showed a marked reduction in overall flanker interference compared to Westerners. The smaller interference effect in the Himba occurred despite their overall slower performancethanWesterners,andwasevidentevenatalowlevelofperceptualloadofthedisplays.InExperiment2,the attentionalselectivityoftheHimbawasfurtherdemonstratedbyshowingthattheirattentionwasnotevencapturedbya movingsingletondistractor. Conclusions/Significance:WearguethatthereduceddistractibilityintheHimbaisclearlyconsistentwiththeirtendencyto prioritizetheanalysisoflocaldetailsinvisualprocessing. Citation: de Fockert JW, Caparos S, Linnell KJ, Davidoff J (2011) Reduced Distractibility in a Remote Culture. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26337. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0026337 Editor:WaelEl-Deredy,UniversityofManchester,UnitedKingdom ReceivedApril26,2011;AcceptedSeptember25,2011;PublishedOctober19,2011 Copyright: ?2011 deFockert et al.This isanopen-access article distributedunder the terms ofthe Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalauthorandsourcearecredited. Funding: This research was supported by Economic and Social Research Cou