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Domain Specificity vs. Domain Generality: The Case of Faces and Words
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Autores
Ventura, Paulo
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Resumo(s)
Faces and words are ever-present stimuli in social environments that require fine-grained,
efficient discrimination of their constituents in order to acquire meaning. Provided that these
stimuli share multiple characteristics, while simultaneously being different visual object categories
in important ways, a debate has ensued pertaining to whether their processing can be reduced to a
common mechanism or whether each category mobilizes exclusive resources. We thus first present
briefly domain-specific and domain-general accounts, as opposing perspectives that highlight the
absence and presence of commonalities in face and word processing, respectively. We then focus on
how faces and words are processed. While faces are usually associated with holistic processing of
facial features, to create a perceptual whole, there is no such consensus pertaining to word processing.
Words have been argued to rely on either letter-by-letter processing or in a way closer to that of faces,
since they are also objects of expertise. Lastly, we advance the debate by providing an overview
of our latest research findings. These findings provide a more direct comparison of face and word
processing, by incorporating both stimuli in one task concurrently.
Descrição
Palavras-chave
Domain generality Domain specificity Word processing Face processing Holistic processing
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Ventura, P., & Cruz, F. (2023). Domain Specificity vs. Domain Generality: The Case of Faces and Words. Vision, 8(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision8010001