The ability to recognize faces is an important socio-cognitive skill that is associated with a
number of cognitive specializations in humans. While numerous studies have examined the …

Typical human adults recognize numerous individuals from their faces accurately, rapidly
and automatically, reaching a level of expertise at individual face recognition that is …

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 …

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 recognition is not rooted in a universal eye movement information-gathering strategy.
Western observers favor a local facial feature sampling strategy, whereas Eastern observers …

It is well known that the integration of facial features into a holistic representation is
dramatically disrupted by picture-plane inversion. To investigate the nature of this …

Identifying a facial feature (eg the eyes) is influenced by the position and identity of other
features (eg the mouth) of the face, supporting the view that an individual face is represented …

The perception of a facial feature (eg, the eyes) is influenced by the position and identity of
other features (eg, the mouth) supporting an integrated, or holistic, representation of …

Primates developed the ability to recognize and individuate their conspecifics by the face.
Despite numerous electrophysiological studies in monkeys [1–3], little is known about the …

Selective impairment of face recognition following brain damage, as in acquired
prosopagnosia, may cause a dramatic loss of diagnosticity of the eye area of the face and an …