The Development of Global and Local Processing: A Comparison of Children to Adults.
In light of the adult model of a hemispheric asymmetry of global and local processing, we compared children (Mage = 8.4 years) to adults in a global-local reaction time (RT) paradigm. Hierarchical designs (large shapes made of small shapes) were presented randomly to each visual field, and participa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cognition & Development Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 506 - 520 |
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