Citation

Bouvet L, Rousset S, Valdois S, Donnadieu S. Acta Psychol. 2011; 138(2): 329-335.

Affiliation

Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition (UMR CNRS 5105), France; Université Pierre Mendès France, BP 47, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.08.004

PMID

21943833

Abstract

This study aimed to provide evidence for a Global Precedence Effect (GPE) in both vision and audition modalities. In order to parallel Navon's paradigm, a novel auditory task was designed in which hierarchical auditory stimuli were used to involve local and global processing. Participants were asked to process auditory and visual hierarchical patterns at the local or global level. In both modalities, a global-over-local advantage and a global interference on local processing were found. The other compelling result is a significant correlation between these effects across modalities. Evidence that the same participants exhibit similar processing style across modalities strongly supports the idea of a cognitive style to process information and common processing principle in perception.

Language: en