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From Perugino to Picasso: Holistic processing of faces in paintings
Ventura, Paulo; Liu, Tina T.; Cruz, F.; Pereira, Alexandre; Domingues, Miguel; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Delgado, JoãoFaces are generally assumed to be processed holistically, that is, features are represented in an integrated fashion. Similarly, pictorial representations of faces (e.g., drawings) have been shown to elicit holistic processing. Some researchers, however, have contested the concept of holistic face processing, suggesting that the perception of a face is no more than the sum of individual face parts. In the prese...
The relation between holistic processing as measured by three composite tasks a...
Ventura, Paulo; Ngan, Vince; Pereira, Alexandre; Cruz, F.; Guerreiro, José C.; Rosario, Vivienne; Delgado, João; Faustino, Bruno; Barros, MartaWe investigated the relationship between holistic processing and face processing using a latent variables approach. Three versions of the composite paradigm were used to measure holistic processing: Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Test, a sequential composite matching task, and a simultaneous composite matching task. Three tasks were used to measure face perception and face memory abilities respectively. We...
From Hand to Eye: a Meta-Analysis of the Benefit from Handwriting Training in V...
Araújo, Susana; Domingues, Miguel; Fernandes, TâniaHandwriting (HW) training seems to boost recognition of visual graphs and learning to read more than other learning experiences. However, efects across studies appear to be variable and the underlying cognitive mechanism has been elusive. We thus conducted a meta-analysis on 50 independent experiments (with 1525 participants) to determine the magnitude of this HW beneft in visual graph recognition, while enligh...
Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated tran...
Fernandes, Tânia; Xavier, Eduardo; Domingues, Miguel; Araújo, SusanaThe cognitive mechanism underpinning mirror priming effects for letters (e.g., IDEA primed by ibea) is still unclear: it could be about mirror invariance (perceptual equivalence of mirror images - d and b - which does not extend to other orientation contrasts like plane rotations - d and p) or about visual similarity (b, d, and p share the same visual features and shape). To enlighten it and investigate the mod...
Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience
Delgado, João; Pereira, Rodrigo; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Domingues, Miguel; Ventura, PauloThe bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975), and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed ...
Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience
Delgado, João; Pereira, Rodrigo; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Faustino, Bruno; Domingues, MiguelThe bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975), and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed auditory...
Further evidence for a late locus of holistic word processing: Exploring vertex...
Ventura, Paulo; Delgado, João; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Cruz, F.; Rosário, Vivienne; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Domingues, Miguel; Sousa, Ana MargaridaPrevious studies have shown a rather late and lexical level for holistic word processing. In the present study, we evaluated whether there are early effects in holistic processing of words, taking into consideration the role of lower-level visual processes that are critical in the hierarchy of visual word recognition: the extraction of viewpoint-invariant line junctions/vertices. We used contour-deleted words i...
Holistic word context does not influence holistic processing of artificial obje...
Ventura, Paulo; Pereira, Alexandre; Xufre, Eunice; Pereira, Marta; Ribeiro, Sofia; Ferreira, Inês; Madeira, Mariana; Martins, Ana; Domingues, MiguelHolistic processing, a hallmark of expert processing, has been shown for written words, signaled by the word composite effect, similar to the face composite effect: fluent readers find it difficult to focus on just one half of a written word while ignoring the other half, especially when the two word halves are aligned rather than misaligned. This effect is signaled by a significant interaction between alignmen...
Holistic Word Processing Is Involved in Fast Parallel Reading
Ventura, Paulo; Domingues, Miguel; Ferreira, Inês; Madeira, Mariana; Martins, Ana; Neto, Maria; Pereira, MartaHolistic processing of words has been previously observed. When readers have to decide whether the target part of a study and test words are the same, their performance is affected by the irrelevant part. The goal of the present study was to provide an empirical test of the idea that holistic word processing is involved in expert reading (fast and parallel letter reading pattern) by exploring the perceptual exp...
Teste de Fluência na Leitura Silenciosa em Contexto para o Português Europeu: E...
Fernandes, Sandra; Querido, Luís; Pereira, Marta; Domingues, MiguelO objetivo do presente estudo foi desenvolver um instrumento para avaliação da Fluência na Leitura Silenciosa em Contexto (FLSC), com estudantes universitários portugueses. A sua construção foi inspirada num teste de FLSC dos EUA. Inclui duas formas equivalentes. Cada uma contém um texto escrito em letras maiúsculas, sem pontuação nem espaços entre palavras. Os estudantes tinham de desenhar um traço separador e...