Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

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 …

Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
belong to different faces, showing that the parts of a face cannot be perceived independently …

Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …

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 …

Objective: Digital devices are now broadly accessible and have the capacity to measure
aspects of human behavior with high precision and accuracy, in a standardized manner. The …

Face recognition is thought to rely on specific mechanisms underlying a perceptual bias
toward processing faces as undecomposable wholes. This face-specific “holistic processing” …

Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas
composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided …

Few concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing.
Progress toward understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term “holistic” …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 143 (2) of Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General (see record 2014-11241-001). The link to the …