Meanings, Mechanisms, and Measures of Holistic Processing
Few concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing. Progress towards understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term holistic has many meanings, with different researchers addressing different mechanisms and favoring different measures. While in...
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doaj-7d745fd0ffab49ed9853e642060d66a62020-11-24T21:33:43ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782012-12-01310.3389/fpsyg.2012.0055337035Meanings, Mechanisms, and Measures of Holistic ProcessingJennifer eRichler0Thomas J Palmeri1Isabel eGauthier2Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt UniversityFew concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing. Progress towards understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term holistic has many meanings, with different researchers addressing different mechanisms and favoring different measures. While in principle the use of different measures should provide converging evidence for a common theoretical construct, convergence has been slow to emerge. We explore why this is the case. One challenge is that holistic processing is often used to describe both a theoretical construct and a measured effect, which may not have a one-to-one mapping. Progress requires more than greater precision in terminology regarding different measures of holistic processing or different hypothesized mechanisms of holistic processing. Researchers also need to be explicit about what meaning of holistic processing they are investigating so that it is clear whether different researchers are describing the same phenomenon or not. Face recognition differs from object recognition, and not all meanings of holistic processing are equally suited to help us understand that important difference.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00553/fullface perceptionobject recognitionface processingface recognitionholistic processing |
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Few concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing. Progress towards understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term holistic has many meanings, with different researchers addressing different mechanisms and favoring different measures. While in principle the use of different measures should provide converging evidence for a common theoretical construct, convergence has been slow to emerge. We explore why this is the case. One challenge is that holistic processing is often used to describe both a theoretical construct and a measured effect, which may not have a one-to-one mapping. Progress requires more than greater precision in terminology regarding different measures of holistic processing or different hypothesized mechanisms of holistic processing. Researchers also need to be explicit about what meaning of holistic processing they are investigating so that it is clear whether different researchers are describing the same phenomenon or not. Face recognition differs from object recognition, and not all meanings of holistic processing are equally suited to help us understand that important difference. |
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face perception object recognition face processing face recognition holistic processing |
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