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 …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

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 …

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

Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …

It has been claimed that faces are recognized as a “whole” rather than by the recognition of
individual parts. In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in …

The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different
characteristics. A person's identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial …

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 …

Computer-generated (CG) beings are rapidly infiltrating the human social world. Yet
evidence about how humans respond to CG faces is mixed. The present systematic review …

Classically, it has been presumed that picture-plane inversion primarily reduces sensitivity to
spacing/configural information in faces (distance between location of the major features) and …