Developmental Emergence of Holistic Processing in Word Recognition

Autor/inn/en	Nischal, Roshni Pushpa; Behrmann, Marlene
Titel	Developmental Emergence of Holistic Processing in Word Recognition
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 26 (2023) 4, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nischal, Roshni Pushpa) ORCID (Behrmann, Marlene)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.13372
Schlagwörter	Word Recognition; Cognitive Processes; Developmental Stages; Comparative Analysis; Decision Making; Correlation; Reading Skills; Human Body; Children; Adolescents; Age Differences; Holistic Approach; Visual Perception; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Worterkennung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Korrelation; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Menschlicher Körper; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Holistischer Ansatz; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	Holistic processing (HP) of faces refers to the obligatory, simultaneous processing of the parts and their relations, and it emerges over the course of development. HP is manifest in a decrement in the perception of inverted versus upright faces and a reduction in face processing ability when the relations between parts are perturbed. Here, adopting the HP framework for faces, we examined the developmental emergence of HP in another domain for which human adults have expertise, namely, visual word processing. Children, adolescents, and adults performed a lexical decision task and we used two established signatures of HP for faces: the advantage in perception of upright over inverted words and nonwords and the reduced sensitivity to increasing parts (word length). Relative to the other groups, children showed less of an advantage for upright versus inverted trials and lexical decision was more affected by increasing word length. Performance on these HP indices was strongly associated with age and with reading proficiency. Also, the emergence of HP for word perception was not simply a result of improved visual perception over the course of development as no group differences were observed on an object decision task. These results reveal the developmental emergence of HP for orthographic input, and reflect a further instance of experience-dependent tuning of visual perception. These results also add to existing findings on the commonalities of mechanisms of word and face recognition. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01