Adults' expertise in recognizing faces has been attributed to configural processing. We
distinguish three types of configural processing: detecting the first-order relations that define …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

Faces are among the most informative stimuli we ever perceive: Even a split-second glimpse
of a person's face tells us his identity, sex, mood, age, race, and direction of attention. The …

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 …

People are remarkably accurate (approaching ceiling) at deciding whether faces are male or
female, even when cues from hairstyle, makeup, and facial hair are minimised. Experiments …

Using ERPs in a face recognition task, we investigated whether inversion and contrast
reversal, which seem to disrupt different aspects of face configuration, differentially affected …

Background: Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, is associated with medial
occipitotemporal lesions, especially on the right. Functional imaging has revealed a focal …

The face inversion effect (FIE) is defined as the larger decrease in recognition performance
for faces than for other mono-oriented objects when they are presented upside down …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

This study compared effects of inversion on perceptual processing of faces with distorted
components (eyes and mouths) and faces distorted by altering spatial relations between …