Adults' expertise in recognizing faces has been attributed to configural processing. We
distinguish three types of configural processing: detecting the first-order relations that define …

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 …

Autism is a severe developmental disorder marked by a triad of deficits, including
impairments in reciprocal social interaction, delays in early language and communication …

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

Most studies investigating the recognition of facial expressions have focused on static
displays of intense expressions. Consequently, researchers may have underestimated the …

Faces are perhaps the most important object category in visual perception, as faces of
conspecifics frequently convey behaviourally, socially, and emotionally relevant information …

People are excellent at identifying faces familiar to them, even from very low quality images,
but are bad at recognizing, or even matching, unfamiliar faces. In this review we shall …

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

Expertise in face processing takes many years to develop. To determine the contribution of
different face-processing skills to this slow development, we altered a single face so as to …