학술논문
The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*Analysis of variance
*Task performance
*Research funding
*Descriptive statistics
Experimental design
Statistical power analysis
Vowels
Word recognition
Face perception
Cognition
Consonants
Reaction time
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Language
ISSN
0090-502X
Abstract
The question of whether word and face recognition rely on overlapping or dissociable neural and cognitive mechanisms received considerable attention in the literature. In the present work, we presented words (aligned or misaligned) superimposed on faces (aligned or misaligned) and tested the interference from the unattended stimulus category on holistic processing of the attended category. In Experiment 1, we found that holistic face processing is reduced when a face was overlaid with an unattended, aligned word (processed holistically). In Experiment 2, we found a similar reduction of holistic processing for words when a word was superimposed on an unattended, aligned face (processed holistically). This reciprocal interference effect indicates a trade-off in holistic processing of the two stimuli, consistent with the idea that word and face recognition may rely on non-independent, overlapping mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]