Some like it "local": A review of hierarchical processing in non-human animals.

IF 1.9 4区 心理学 Q3 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-06 DOI:10.3758/s13420-023-00605-0
Maria Santacà
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Abstract

When seeing a visual image, humans prioritize the perception of global features, which is followed by the assessment of the local ones. This global precedence has been investigated using hierarchical stimuli that consist of a large, global shape formed by the spatial arrangement of small local shapes. Comparing non-human animals to humans, research on global and local processing has revealed a heterogeneous pattern of results with some species exhibiting a local precedence and others a global one. Many factors have been proposed to influence the global and local processing: internal factors (e.g., age, sex) and external elements or perceptual field variables (e.g., stimulus size, visual angle, eccentricity, sparsity). In this review, studies showing that different non-human species process hierarchical stimuli in the same (global precedence) or reverse (local precedence) direction as humans are first collated. Different ecological, perceptual, and anatomical features that may influence global and local processing are subsequently proposed based on a detailed analysis of these studies. This information is likely to improve our understanding of the mechanisms behind the perceptual organization and visual processing, and could explain the observed differences in hierarchical processing between species.

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有些人喜欢它是“局部的”:对非人类动物的分级处理的回顾。
当看到视觉图像时,人类会优先考虑对全局特征的感知,然后再评估局部特征。这种全局优先已经使用层次刺激进行了研究,该层次刺激由小的局部形状的空间排列形成的大的全局形状组成。将非人类动物与人类进行比较,对全球和局部处理的研究揭示了一种异质的结果模式,一些物种表现出局部优先,另一些则表现出全球优先。已经提出了许多因素来影响全局和局部处理:内部因素(如年龄、性别)和外部因素或感知场变量(如刺激大小、视角、偏心率、稀疏性)。在这篇综述中,研究表明,不同的非人类物种以与人类相同(全局优先)或相反(局部优先)的方向处理层次刺激,这是首次整理的。基于对这些研究的详细分析,随后提出了可能影响全局和局部处理的不同生态、感知和解剖特征。这些信息可能会提高我们对感知组织和视觉处理背后机制的理解,并可以解释观察到的物种之间层次处理的差异。
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Learning & Behavior
Learning & Behavior 医学-动物学
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
5.60%
发文量
50
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Learning & Behavior publishes experimental and theoretical contributions and critical reviews concerning fundamental processes of learning and behavior in nonhuman and human animals. Topics covered include sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, attention, memory, motivation, emotion, development, social behavior, and comparative investigations.
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