Journal
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
Volume 80, Issue 6, Pages 1449-1460Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-018-1518-7
Keywords
Face recognition; Individual differences; Stroop; Flanker
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- National Science Foundation [SBE-0542013, SMA-1640681]
- National Science Foundation graduate fellowship
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The Vanderbilt Holistic Processing Test for faces (VHPT-F) is the first standard test designed to measure individual differences in holistic processing. The test measures failures of selective attention to face parts through congruency effects, an operational definition of holistic processing. However, this conception of holistic processing has been challenged by the suggestion that it may tap into the same selective attention or cognitive control mechanisms that yield congruency effects in Stroop and Flanker paradigms. Here, we report data from 130 subjects on the VHPT-F, several versions of Stroop and Flanker tasks, as well as fluid IQ. Results suggested a small degree of shared variance in Stroop and Flanker congruency effects, which did not relate to congruency effects on the VHPT-F. Variability on the VHPT-F was also not correlated with Fluid IQ. In sum, we find no evidence that holistic face processing as measured by congruency in the VHPT-F is accounted for by domain-general control mechanisms.
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