Whole-object effects in visual word processing: Parallels with and differences from face recognition
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Whole-object effects in visual word processing : Parallels with and differences from face recognition. / Feizabadi, Monireh; Albonico, Andrea; Starrfelt, Randi; Barton, Jason J. S.
I: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bind 38, Nr. 3, 2021, s. 231-257.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Whole-object effects in visual word processing
T2 - Parallels with and differences from face recognition
AU - Feizabadi, Monireh
AU - Albonico, Andrea
AU - Starrfelt, Randi
AU - Barton, Jason J. S.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Visual words and faces differ in their structural properties, but both are objects of high expertise. Holistic processing is said to characterize expert face recognition, but the extent to which whole-word processes contribute to word recognition is unclear, particularly as word recognition is thought to proceed by a component-based process. We review the evidence for experimental effects in word recognition that parallel those used to support holistic face processing, namely inversion effects, the part-whole task, and composite effects, as well as the status of whole-word processing in pure alexia and developmental dyslexia, contrasts between familiar and unfamiliar languages, and the differences between handwriting and typeset font. The observations support some parallels in whole-object influences between face and visual word recognition, but do not necessarily imply similar expert mechanisms. It remains to be determined whether and how the relative balance between part-based and whole-object processing differs for visual words and faces.
AB - Visual words and faces differ in their structural properties, but both are objects of high expertise. Holistic processing is said to characterize expert face recognition, but the extent to which whole-word processes contribute to word recognition is unclear, particularly as word recognition is thought to proceed by a component-based process. We review the evidence for experimental effects in word recognition that parallel those used to support holistic face processing, namely inversion effects, the part-whole task, and composite effects, as well as the status of whole-word processing in pure alexia and developmental dyslexia, contrasts between familiar and unfamiliar languages, and the differences between handwriting and typeset font. The observations support some parallels in whole-object influences between face and visual word recognition, but do not necessarily imply similar expert mechanisms. It remains to be determined whether and how the relative balance between part-based and whole-object processing differs for visual words and faces.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Lexical
KW - alexia
KW - Object recognition
KW - part-whole advantage
KW - composite effect
U2 - 10.1080/02643294.2021.1974369
DO - 10.1080/02643294.2021.1974369
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34529548
VL - 38
SP - 231
EP - 257
JO - Cognitive Neuropsychology
JF - Cognitive Neuropsychology
SN - 0264-3294
IS - 3
ER -
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