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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Vision Science

Background:

  • Facial recognition is a highly developed human ability.
  • Face inversion disrupts holistic face processing, impacting recognition.
  • The role of feature-based vs. holistic processing in familiarity advantage is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if feature-based face processing aids familiar face detection.
  • To test the effect of face inversion on visual search for familiar faces.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a visual search task involving familiar and unfamiliar faces.
  • Face stimuli were presented in upright and inverted orientations.
  • Target faces were detected in arrays of varying sizes (2, 4, or 6 images).

Main Results:

  • Familiar face detection was facilitated for both upright and inverted faces.
  • Familiarity advantage persisted despite face inversion.
  • Familiarity also aided in rejecting unfamiliar distractors.

Conclusions:

  • The familiarity advantage in face detection is largely mediated by feature-based processes.
  • Holistic face processing is not essential for the familiarity effect.
  • Feature-based processing robustly supports familiar face recognition.