Humans are remarkably adept at recognizing objects across a wide range of views. A
notable exception to this general rule is that turning a face upside down makes it particularly …

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

Face inversion effects are used as evidence that faces are processed differently from
objects. Nevertheless, there is debate about whether processing differences between …

We report four experiments leading to conclusions that:(i) the face-inversion effect is mainly
due to the deficits in processing of configural information from inverted faces; and (ii) this …

Upside-down inversion disrupts the processing of spatial relations between the features of a
face, while largely preserving local feature analysis. However, recent studies on face …

Abstract “Facial inversion effects” refers to the findings that recognition of inverted faces is
less accurate than recognition of upright faces. We now report inversion effects for isolated …

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 …

Understanding how the human visual system recognizes objects is one of the key
challenges in neuroscience. Inspired by a large body of physiological evidence, a general …

The identification of upright faces seems to involve a special sensitivity to “configural”
information, the processing of which is less effective when the face is inverted. However the …

Humans have an impressive ability to discriminate between faces despite their similarity as
visual patterns [1, 2]. This expertise relies on configural coding of spatial relations between …