Global and local processing
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Author: Dr. Lawrence M. Ward, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA
Dr. Lawrence M. Ward accepted the invitation on 4 April 2008 (self-imposed deadline: 4 June 2008).
Global and local processing refers to information processing analysis of different levels of organization of the features or attributes of perceptual objects. Various situational and object-inherent factors determine which level of analysis dominates in the ontogenesis of a candidate perceptual object.
| Suggested by: | Dr. Richard Wright, Simon Fraser University |
| Invited by: | Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia |
