Holistic versus analytic process models: a reply.
Two classes of stimulus process models are considered in this reply to Dykes and Cooper. It is shown that analytic models which assume that stimuli are initially processed in terms of constituent dimensions do not account for large amounts of published data. It is also shown that the holistic-discriminability model that Dykes and Cooper reject is nonetheless consistent with their results and predicts all of the data for which their analytic model was constructed to account.
D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological