Navon figure

[2] Jules Davidoff also performed research, but in a remote culture, finding opposite results; the participants more readily identified the local features.

Reading Navon figures has been found to affect a range of tasks.

It has been shown that just 5 minutes reading out the small letters of Navon figures has a detrimental effect on face recognition.

[6][7] The size of the Navon effect has been found to be influenced by the properties of the image.

[8] The effect is short lived (lasting less than a couple of minutes).