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A single-element impact in global/local processing: the roles of element centrality and diagnosticity

Auteur: David Navon

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 2/2008

Abstract

A modification of the compound stimuli paradigm has been used to measure the impact of a certain single element on the local-to-global effect and to compare the measured impacts of central and non-central elements matched on diagnosticity. In addition to global letters made of identical response-associated elements, some global letters comprised of only one response-associated element at a specific location (with all other ones being response-neutral), and in some other global letters that critical element was rather response-neutral (with all other ones being response-associated). Experiment 1 showed that the contribution of a central element that served as a distinctive feature was as large as the joint contribution of all other elements. Experiment 2 (as well as Experiment 4) showed that, in contrast, a non-central element that served as a distinctive feature did not contribute at all to the effect. Experiment 3 showed that the contribution of a central element was still as large as the joint contribution of all other elements even when it was completely irrelevant for selecting the response.

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Titel: A single-element impact in global/local processing: the roles of element centrality and diagnosticity
Auteur: David Navon
Publicatiedatum: 01-03-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-006-0102-2

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