The current study tested the widespread assumption that holistic processing is important for
the identification of upright faces. In two experiments, we show that (a) there are large …

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 …

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 holistic processing is thought to underlie normal face recognition ability, widely
discrepant reports have recently emerged about this link in an individual differences context …

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 …

Holistic processing, a hallmark of face processing, can be measured by the composite face
effect: adults have difficulty recognising the top half of a face when it is aligned with a new …

A large body of research supports the hypothesis that the human visual system does not
process a face as a collection of separable facial features but as an integrated perceptual …

Why do some people recognize faces easily and others frequently make mistakes in
recognizing faces? Classic behavioral work has shown that faces are processed in a …

There is growing interest in the study of individual differences in face recognition, including
one of its hallmarks, holistic processing, which can be defined as a failure of selective …

Holistic processing of faces is characterized by encoding of the face as a single stimulus.
This study employed a composite face task to examine whether holistic processing varies …