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Those who experience the illusion most strongly tend to have a more global, holistic processing style as compared to a more local, analytic style.
The face inversion effect is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for holistic processing of faces.
The most supported explanation is that inverting a face disrupts holistic processing, which is key for face recognition.
Because, in Chinese, words are pictures rather than sequences of letters, Chinese thinking tends toward a more holistic processing of information.
Can it be that some of these may not reflect specific principles but rather a more overarching general mechanism of visual holistic processing?
Because Chinese words are pictures rather than sequences of letters, Chinese thinking tends toward more holistic processing of information and emphasizes the big picture over details.
Why might we not expect holistic processing?
Despite this relatively weak support for holistic processing in experts being significantly greater than that in novices, there is still support for holistic processing in the experts alone.
For upright fingerprints, we found weak evidence for holistic processing, but with no differences between experts and novices with respect to holistic processing.
These relatively weak holistic processing effects contrast with robust evidence for holistic processing with faces and with objects in other domains of perceptual expertise.
Overall, there is weak evidence for holistic processing as an element of expertise matching upright fingerprints.
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