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Cynthia L Dulaney1, William Marks
1Department of Psychology, Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45207-6511, USA. dulaney@xavier.edu
Abstract:
We investigated interference, inhibition and transfer effects associated with training on a global-local task. Participants received 10,080 training trials on identifying local features of global/local stimuli. Global processing advantage was eliminated with practice. Global interference decreased with training whereas local interference developed with training. Transfer analyses indicated that training produced stimulus-specific effects in local processing and task-specific effects in global processing. Our findings are discussed in regards to models of global/local processing.
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