ABSTRACT
This often seems to be an alternative way of stating the same distinction as that above. Lockhead (1972) has referred to holistic processing as 'blob' processing. However, the terms are so imprecisely defined by their users that it is difficult to reach an unequivocal decision on whether they are equivalent or not. Templates strictly should include all detail of a shape so that a letter A made of up dots /'" requires a different template from one composed of lines A, whereas holistic processing of these patterns would ignore the internal details and treat them as equivalent. In
Global versus local processing
'superimposed' until the common features stood out; it is possible to imagine a neural process of this type.
