ERP evidence of a meaningfulness impact on visual global/local processing: When meaning captures attention

▸ Meaningfulness had an early impact on cerebral processing during global/local task. ▸ Objects and letters presented similar N1 amplitude whichever the level of processing. ▸ Non-objects presented the smallest N1 amplitude during the global condition. ▸ Non-objects presented the highest N1 amplitude during the local condition. ▸ The present findings underlined the influences of top-down identification processes.