Global precedence effects account for individual differences in both face and object recognition performance

TY - JOUR

T1 - Global precedence effects account for individual differences in both face and object recognition performance

AU - Gerlach, Christian

AU - Starrfelt, Randi

PY - 2018/8

Y1 - 2018/8

N2 - There has been an increase in studies adopting an individual difference approach to examine visual cognition and in particular in studies trying to relate face recognition performance with measures of holistic processing (the face composite effect and the part-whole effect). In the present study we examine whether global precedence effects, measured by means of non-face stimuli in Navon’s paradigm, can also account for individual differences in face recognition and, if so, whether the effect is of similar magnitude for faces and objects. We find evidence that global precedence effects facilitate both face and object recognition, and to a similar extent. Our results suggest that both face and object recognition are characterized by a coarse-to-fine temporal dynamic, where global shape information is derived prior to local shape information, and that the efficiency of face and object recognition is related to the magnitude of the global precedence effect.

AB - There has been an increase in studies adopting an individual difference approach to examine visual cognition and in particular in studies trying to relate face recognition performance with measures of holistic processing (the face composite effect and the part-whole effect). In the present study we examine whether global precedence effects, measured by means of non-face stimuli in Navon’s paradigm, can also account for individual differences in face recognition and, if so, whether the effect is of similar magnitude for faces and objects. We find evidence that global precedence effects facilitate both face and object recognition, and to a similar extent. Our results suggest that both face and object recognition are characterized by a coarse-to-fine temporal dynamic, where global shape information is derived prior to local shape information, and that the efficiency of face and object recognition is related to the magnitude of the global precedence effect.

KW - Face recognition

KW - Holistic processing

KW - Individual differences

KW - Object recognition

U2 - 10.3758/s13423-018-1458-1

DO - 10.3758/s13423-018-1458-1

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 29560562

SN - 1069-9384

VL - 25

SP - 1365

EP - 1372

JO - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

IS - 4

ER -