Titolo Interferenza asimmetrica tra l'informazione locale e globale alla nascita Periodico Giornale italiano di psicologia Anno: 2001 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 651 - Pagina finale: 658
Two experiments were carried out to demonstrate the existence of a global precedence effect in newborns, as it was found in adults and in 3-4-month-old infants. The results demonstrated that, when the two levels of visual information were equally discriminable, newborns showed an asymmetric interference between the two levels. This finding provides evidence for a processing dominance of global over local information.