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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Holistic face processing is crucial for recognizing individuals.
  • Selective attention to facial parts is often limited by holistic processing.
  • The specific facial features underlying holistic processing remain debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine whether facial shape or surface information underlies holistic face processing.
  • To investigate if generalization of holistic processing to non-experienced faces requires extensive discrimination experience.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted to test the role of shape versus surface information.
  • The composite face effect (CFE) was used as a measure of holistic processing.
  • Participants processed faces varying in shape and/or surface information, including 3D shape variations.

Main Results:

  • Facial shape information alone elicited the composite face effect (CFE).
  • The CFE was eliminated when faces differed only in surface information or lacked 3D shape.
  • Holistic processing generalized similarly to experienced (own-race) and non-experienced (other-race) faces.

Conclusions:

  • Facial shape information is essential for holistic face processing.
  • Generalization of holistic processing to non-experienced faces relies on shape information, not extensive individuation experience.
  • A shape-based account explains holistic processing and its generalization to novel faces and objects.