“…Findings which indicate that presence or absence of global/local advantage and interference may depend on perceptual factors affecting the quality of information available at the global and local levels, support this argument. In the previous sections it was reported that factors such as density/sparsity of local components (e.g., Lovegrove & Pepper, 1994), number of elements (e.g., Kimchi, 1982), exposure duration (e.g., Wandmacher & Arend, 1985), luminance of the stimulus (e.g., Hughes, Layton, Baird & Lester, 1984), lateral masking (e.g., Wolford & Chamber, 1978), and retinal location (e.g., Kawabata, 1990) may affect processing of global and local levels. According to this interpretation it has been suggested that (e.g., Hoffman, 1980;Kinchla & Wolfe, 1979;Navon & Norman, 1983;Pomerantz, 1981Pomerantz, , 1983) the global configuration is superior to local components mainly because the latter are less discriminable than the former.…”