A study on pattern perception looked at stimuli in which a single "larger" letter was constructed of smaller letters (e.g. ,using small "s" letters to make a large "H").In this study,participants were asked to identify the individual components (small letters)or identify the large letter.When the small letters were positioned widely spaced,in general,participants were faster at identifying the smaller letters versus the larger letters.This is known as

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This phenomenon is known as the local precedence effect, which suggests that people tend to perceive and process local features before global features. In this case, the smaller letters are the local features, and participants are faster at identifying them compared to identifying the larger letter (which is the global feature).

A Study on Pattern Perception Looked at Stimuli in Which