PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION AND THE GLOBAL-LOCAL RELATIONSHIP

Previous research has produced contradictory results and ambiguities i n regard to the global precedence effect. In the present study, the gl obal-local relationship is discussed in association with perceptual or ganization and the concepts of part and whole. The global-local relati onship is classified into four major categories: inclusion, placeholde r, featural and dimensional. Any of these relationships may or may not be accompanied with a semantic relationship between the two levels.