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 …

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 …

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 …

Human faces look more similar to each other when they are presented upside down, leading
to an increase in error rate and response time during individual face discrimination tasks …

I published a critical review of the face inversion effect (Rossion, 2008) that triggered a few
reactions and commentaries by colleagues in the field (Riesenhuber & Wolff, in press; Yovel …

This article explores the concept of recognizing a face holistically and examines the
experimental paradigms that serve as the “gold standards” for holistic perception. It …

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

Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging
conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook …

In many ways, of course, the answer to the question “Are faces special?” is obvious. There is
no doubt that faces are special functionally—that is, faces provide unique information about …