Reanalysis of protocols from a report by Deregowski et al. favours the hypothesis that nonpictorial peoples viewing pictorial test materials may initially recognize details and gradually build up a composite structure, rather than—as Deregowski et al. proposed—engage in a process of differentiation, from a global mass towards finer discriminations.
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