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 …

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

The ability of the human face to communicate emotional states via facial expressions is well
known, and past research has established the importance and universality of emotional …

A major debate in the mental-rotation literature concerns the question of whether objects are
represented holistically during rotation. Effects of object complexity on rotational speed are …

Same-race (SR) faces are recognized better than other-race (OR) faces, and this other-race
effect (ORE) is correlated with experience. SR faces are also processed more holistically …

Perceptual expertise refers to learning that is specific to a domain, that transfers to new items
within the trained domain, and that leads to automatic processing in the sense that expertise …

Prior work suggests that nonface objects of expertise can interfere with the perception of
faces when the two categories are alternately presented, suggesting competition for shared …

Visual memory for faces has been extensively researched, especially regarding the main
factors that influence face memorability. However, what we remember exactly about a face …

Studies on visual cognitive load have reported inconsistent effects of distractor interference
when distractors have visual characteristic that are similar to the cognitive load. Some …