The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face recognition research, yet central
questions related to holistic processing remain unanswered, and debates have thus far …

A longstanding controversy concerns the functional organization of high-level vision, and the
extent to which the recognition of different classes of visual stimuli engages a single system …

Developmental prosopagnosia is characterized by severe, lifelong difficulties when
recognizing facial identity. Unfortunately, the most common diagnostic assessment …

Interest in using individual differences in face recognition ability to better understand the
perceptual and cognitive mechanisms supporting face processing has grown substantially in …

Recent research has suggested the importance of part-based information in face recognition
in addition to global, whole-face information. Nevertheless, face drawing experience was …

This study investigated the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the role of the eye and
the mouth regions in the recognition of facial happiness, anger, and surprise. To this end …

Previous work has reported the existence of “super-recognisers”(SRs), or individuals with
extraordinary face recognition skills. However, the precise underpinnings of this ability have …

Few findings in cognitive science have proved as influential as the composite face effect.
When the top half of one face is aligned with the bottom half of another, and presented …

Face recognition is not rooted in a universal eye movement information-gathering strategy.
Western observers favor a local facial feature sampling strategy, whereas Eastern observers …

Objective: The objective of this study was to establish whether or not dyslexics are impaired
at the recognition of faces and other complex nonword visual objects. This would be …