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Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words
Ventura, Paulo; Pereira, Alexandre; Cruz, F.; Delgado, João; Faustino, Bruno; Guerreiro, José CarlosThe other-race effect (ORE) is a well-known phenomenon in which people discriminate and recognize faces from their ethnic group more accurately than faces from other ethnic groups. Holistic processing, or the mandatory tendency to process all parts of an object together, has been proposed as an explanation for the ORE. According to the holistic perspective of the ORE, other-race faces might be subject to weaker...
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 relationships between reading fluency and different measures of holistic wo...
Ventura, Paulo; Tse, Helen W.-Y.; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Faustino, BrunoRecently, paradigms in the face recognition literature have been adopted to reveal holistic processing in word recognition. It is unknown, however, whether different measures of holistic word processing share similar underlying mechanisms, and whether fluent word reading relies on holistic word processing. We measured holistic processing effects in three paradigms (composite, configural sensitivity, part–whole)...
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...
Holistic word processing is correlated with efficiency in visual word recognition
Ventura, Paulo; Fernandes, Tânia; Pereira, Alexandre; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel F.Holistic processing of visual words (i.e., obligatory encoding of/attending to all letters of a word) could be a marker of expert word recognition. In the present study, we thus examined for the first time whether there is a direct relation between the wordcomposite effect (i.e., all parts of a visual word are fully processed when observers perform a task on a word part) and fast access to the orthographic lexi...
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...
Hemispheric asymmetry in holistic processing of words
Ventura, Paulo; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Faustino, Bruno; Leite, Isabel; Wong, AlanHolistic processing has been regarded as a hallmark of face perception, indicating the automatic and obligatory tendency of the visual system to process all face parts as a perceptual unit rather than in isolation. Studies involving lateralized stimulus presentation suggest that the right hemisphere dominates holistic face processing. Holistic processing can also be shown with other categories such as words and...