Nakabayashi Kazuyo, Liu Chang Hong
Department of Psychology, University of Hull Hull, UK.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University Poole, UK.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Oct 20;8:831. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00831. eCollection 2014.
According to a classic view developed by Carey and Diamond (1977), young children process faces in a piecemeal fashion before adult-like holistic processing starts to emerge at the age of around 10 years. This is known as the encoding switch hypothesis. Since then, a growing body of studies have challenged the theory. This article will provide a critical appraisal of this literature, followed by an analysis of some more recent developments. We will conclude, quite contrary to the classical view, that holistic processing is not only present in early child development, but could even precede the development of part-based processing.
根据凯里和戴蒙德（1977年）提出的一种经典观点，幼儿在大约10岁开始出现类似成人的整体加工之前，是以零碎的方式处理面孔的。这就是所谓的编码转换假说。从那时起，越来越多的研究对该理论提出了挑战。本文将对这一文献进行批判性评价，随后分析一些最新进展。我们将得出结论，与经典观点截然不同的是，整体加工不仅存在于儿童早期发展中，甚至可能先于基于部分的加工发展。
