Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Center for Cognitive Science, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology unit, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2021 Jul;83(5):2189-2204. doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02287-0. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
Holistic processing has been shown with both faces and words, but it is unclear how similar their underlying mechanisms are. In this study attention to global and local features was manipulated and the consequences for holistic word and face processing were examined. On each trial participants were presented two Navon figures and told to focus on either the global or the local level. Then they performed a composite task in which they indicated whether the target halves of two sequentially presented faces or words were the same or different, ignoring the irrelevant halves. Similar stronger global priming effects were found for faces and words, indicating that holistic processing for the two types of stimuli were susceptible to attention manipulations to similar degrees, which was confirmed with Bayesian analyses. The findings add to the investigation of the similarity and differences between holistic processing and help reveal those aspects of holistic processing that are domain general and those specific to individual categories.
整体加工已在面孔和词语上得到证实，但它们的潜在机制尚不清楚。在这项研究中，我们操纵了对整体和局部特征的注意，并研究了整体词和整体面孔加工的结果。在每次试验中，参与者呈现两个纳冯图形，并被告知关注全局或局部水平。然后，他们执行了一个复合任务，在该任务中，他们忽略不相关的部分，指出两个连续呈现的面孔或单词的目标半部分是否相同或不同。对于面孔和单词，都发现了相似的更强的整体启动效应，表明这两种类型的刺激的整体加工都容易受到相似程度的注意力操纵，这一点通过贝叶斯分析得到了证实。这些发现增加了对整体加工相似性和差异性的研究，并有助于揭示整体加工的那些具有普遍性的方面和那些特定于个别类别的方面。
