… in which orientations were blocked), the composite face effect decreased linearly with rotation.
We conclude that holistic processing is tuned to upright faces, diminishes as faces deviate …

… upright orientation (indicating holistic processing) but not in the inverted orientation (indicating
part-based processing)… between top-half-faces and bottom-half-faces were also of interest, …

… This inversion effect on gender perception was similar for Chinese and Caucasian faces,
since no interaction between race and orientation was observed [F(1,7) 2.47, p .16, hp 2 .26]; …

… Most interestingly, despite their equal contribution to the discrimination of faces at upright
orientation in normal observers, we found converging evidence for a functional dissociation …

… faces are processed holistically, we know relatively little about what information holistic
processing captures from a face. … provide analyses including orientation at the end of this section. …

… configural information to the holistic process and the controversy … ) when the faces are
presented in their upright orientations (… when the faces are presented in their inverted orientations (…

… face orientation and holistic processing. We found a significant three-way interaction between
orientation… .30, suggesting that face orientation modulates holistic face processing. The four…

… argue that holistic processing is a general mechanism that may occur at an earlier stage of
face … orientation is not seen when discriminating scrambled faces (errors represent ±1 SEM). …

… but flawed measure of holistic processing. Our findings salvage the central role of holistic
processing in face recognition and cast doubt on a subset of the face-perception literature that …

… even a relatively small perturbation in face orientation (30 deg away from … face internal
representation hypothesis and the notion that the holistic processing of faces is highly orientation…