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Comments that J. R. Pomerantz (1983) has made several important contributions to processing of visual forms, including demonstrating asymmetric interference between global and local levels of forms and generalizing the notion of asymmetric interference effects to motion stimuli. The present author (a) distinguishes hypotheses about the origin of such effects (e.g., global precedence) from empirical generalizations concerning the conditions under which the effects occur, (b) defines a concept of processing dominance and describes several possible types, and (c) indicates the relevance of A. Treisman's (see record 1982-07512-001) theory of feature integration for interpreting various types of processing dominance effects. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
