Journal article
The many faces of configural processing
Abstract
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 (i.e. two eyes above a nose and mouth), holistic processing (glueing the features together into a gestalt), and processing second-order relations (i.e. the spacing among features). We provide evidence for their separability based on behavioral marker …
Authors
Maurer D; Le Grand R; Mondloch CJ
Journal
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 255–260
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 2002
DOI
10.1016/s1364-6613(02)01903-4
ISSN
1364-6613