Visual object understanding includes processes at the nexus of visual perception and visual
cognition. A traditional approach separates questions that are more associated with …

Few concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing.
Progress toward understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term “holistic” …

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 …

Recognizing individual faces outside one's race poses difficulty, a phenomenon known as
the other-race effect. Most researchers agree that this effect results from differential …

Faces are perceived holistically, a phenomenon best illustrated when the processing of a
face feature is affected by the other features. Here, the authors tested the hypothesis that the …

The perception of faces and of nonface objects share common early visual processing
stages. Some argue, however, that the brain eventually processes faces separately from …

This book introduces you to the fascinating phenomena involved in human memory: the
theories about how memory works, the supporting evidence for those theories, and the …

The authors present a theory of stochastic interactive parallel processing with special
emphasis on channel interactions and their relation to system capacity. The approach is …

Compared with other objects, faces are processed more holistically and with a larger
reliance on configural information. Such hallmarks efface processing can also be found for …