When we see the face of a familiar friend or colleague, there is a flash of recognition that
occurs instantaneously and without conscious effort. Introspectively, speeded recognition of …

It is well established that faces, at least, are processed" holistically." Many theoretical issues
regarding holistic processing, however, are rather poorly understood. It remains a matter of …

Since the days of Galton (1879), psychologists have been aware that a face is not identified
by the recognition of its isolated, individual features, but by the integration of these features …

Researchers have used several composite face paradigms to assess holistic processing of
faces. In the selective attention paradigm, participants decide whether one face part (eg, top) …

Although many researchers agree that faces are processed holistically, we know relatively
little about what information holistic processing captures from a face. Most studies that …

It has been claimed that faces are recognized as a “whole” rather than by the recognition of
individual parts. In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in …

Are faces recognized using more holistic representations than other types of stimuli? Taking
holistic representation to mean representation without an internal part structure, we interpret …

The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face-recognition research. In the study
reported here, we demonstrated that holistic processing predicts face-recognition abilities on …

What is holistic processing of faces? We view it as processing in which parts or piecemeal
features (mouths, eyes, noses, etc.)(1) are not explicitly represented in memory codes …

It is widely agreed that the human face is processed differently from other objects. However
there is a lack of consensus on what is meant by a wide array of terms used to describe this …