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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Presenting a face stimulus upside-down generally causes a larger deficit in perceiving
metric distances between facial features (“configuration”) than local properties of these …

There is ample evidence that morphological and social cues in a human face provide
signals of human personality and behaviour. Previous studies have discovered associations …

A number of human brain areas showing a larger response to faces than to objects from
different categories, or to scrambled faces, have been identified in neuroimaging studies …

Although humans possess well-developed face processing expertise, face processing is
nevertheless subject to a variety of biases. Perhaps the best known of these biases is the …

I published a critical review of the face inversion effect (Rossion, 2008) that triggered a few
reactions and commentaries by colleagues in the field (Riesenhuber & Wolff, in press; Yovel …

Whenever a visual scene is cast onto the retina, much of it will appear degraded due to poor
resolution in the periphery; moreover, optical defocus can cause blur in central vision …