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The many faces of configural processing
2002
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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 tasks, their sensitivity to experimental manipulations,
doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(02)01903-4
pmid:12039607
fatcat:vfguwwvdivghdaw7xyefbzwsfy