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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The composite face paradigm demonstrates holistic face perception by recombining face parts.
  • Holistic perception is indicated when aligned face parts in a face-like configuration slow down and reduce accuracy in part-based responses.
  • Existing research has not fully explored other interference sources in the composite face effect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how task-irrelevant social categories (gender and occupation) influence the composite face effect.
  • To differentiate between visual (gender) and semantic (occupation) contributions to composite interference.
  • To assess if variations in task-irrelevant categories modulate the composite effect size.

Main Methods:

  • A novel variant of the composite face paradigm was developed.
  • Composites were created using familiar faces from orthogonal social categories (gender and occupation).
  • The study measured interference effects when task-irrelevant categories were varied.

Main Results:

  • The composite face effect is significantly modulated by task-irrelevant social categories.
  • Interference from social categories is primarily visual in nature.
  • Face gender exerted a more direct and consistent influence on the composite effect than occupation.

Conclusions:

  • Task-irrelevant social information can interfere with holistic face perception.
  • The visual properties of faces play a more dominant role in this interference than semantic properties.
  • The findings refine our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the composite face effect.