Hemispheric asymmetry in infancy: Global or local processing of objects in the haptic mode

Local and Global Processing in Blind and Sighted Children in a Naming and Drawing Task

“…Much of the research conducted in the domain of haptic perception has compared normal‐sighted, late‐blind (LB), and early‐blind (EB) individuals to reveal the role of visual experience and visual imagery in haptic perception (e.g., D'Angiulli & Kennedy, ; Dulin & Serrière, ; Norman, Norman, Clayton, Lianekhammy, & Zielke, ). These studies have concentrated on behavioral performance—for instance, naming pictures in raised‐line drawings (Heller, ; Heller, McCarthy, & Clark, ), the underlying neural substrates of haptic perception (James, Kim, & Fisher, ; Streri, Dion, & Mertz, ), or individual differences, such as gender effects, in this ability (Vecchi, ; Zuidhoek, Kappers, & Postma, ).…”

Local and global auditory processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence

“…For example, the games 'Go' and 'Chess' have been hypothesized to differentially employ local and global strategies (Chen et al, 2003). Studies of haptic processing have revealed that global shape information affects object identification at an earlier age than local features (Morrongiello, Humphrey, Timney, Choi, & Rocca, 1994), that young infants process more global information for objects explored with their left hands and more local information for explorations made with their right hands (Streri, 2002), and that the relative importance of local and global processing changes over time during object manipulation (Lakatos & Marks, 1999). However, audition has been considered to be the test-case for whether or not the local and global processing distinction applies directly to modalities other than vision (Dowling, 1978;Horváth, Czigler, Sussman, & Winkler, 2001;Justus & List, 2005;Lassonde et al, 1999;Peretz, 1990;Schiavetto, Cortese, & Alain, 1999).…”