Abstract
In 2019, we published a paper in the Journal of Expertise (Ventura et al., 2019) showing that visual words show holistic processing, deemed a characteristic of faces, when the visual stimuli are within the limits of expertise of the Visual Word Form System (Cohen et al., 2008) and thus when there is fast parallel reading. In this commentary, we discuss this evidence considering the perspective of shared processing across both faces and words vs. the perspective of domain specificity for the processing of each domain. Considering the most recent evidence of mutual interference of holistic processing of words and faces (Ventura et al., 2023), we conclude for the first perspective; i.e., shared processing across both faces and words.
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Francisco Cruz
Doctoral Student
Francisco Cruz is a doctoral student in social psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Prof. André Mata (University of Lisbon) and Prof. Tania Lombrozo (Princeton University). Currently, he is visiting Princeton University in research collaborator capacity. His project explores why people are sceptical of psychology as a science, as well as how to increase trust in psychological science. His research interests include lay beliefs about science (i.e., what people believe that science can or cannot explain and why), motivated beliefs in science (i.e., the contexts in which people are more prone to accepting scientific explanations), representation of social groups (i.e., how people integrate information to provide judgments on shared homogeneity vs. heterogeneity across group members), epistemic trespassing (i.e., when people provide judgments on domains beyond those in which they are experts), intuitive mind-body dualism (i.e., a natural tendency to see the world as split in material and immaterial portions), and face perception (i.e., features driving the advantage in recall for own- vs. other-race faces). He is a Student Affiliate at the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, an Author at CogBites, and an Opinion Editor at Cruamente.