Carleton Author

Neiworth, Julie J.; Gleichman, Amy J.; Olinick, Anne S.; Lamb, Kristen E.

Department

Psychology

Journal Title

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Publication Date

2006

First Page

323

Last Page

330

Publisher

American Psychological Association

File Name

022_Neiworth-Julie_GlobalAndLocalProcessingInAdultHumans.pdf

Keywords

global precedence, local bias, perception, discrimination, cotton-top tamarins

Abstract

This study compared adults (Homo sapiens), young children (Homo sapiens), and adult tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) while they discriminated global and local properties of stimuli. Subjects were trained to discriminate a circle made of circle elements from a square made of square elements and were tested with circles made of squares and squares made of circles. Adult humans showed a global bias in testing that was unaffected by the density of the elements in the stimuli. Children showed a global bias with dense displays but discriminated by both local and global properties with sparse displays. Adult tamarins’ biases matched those of the children. The striking similarity between the perceptual processing of adult monkeys and humans diagnosed with autism and the difference between this and normatively developing human perception is discussed.

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Green

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Yes

Postprint Archiving

Yes

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No

Contributing Organization

Carleton College

Type

Article

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

DOI

10.1037/0735-7036.120.4.323

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