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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • The debate on whether inverted faces are processed locally or holistically persists.
  • Understanding face perception is crucial for cognitive and neuroscience research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the degree of holistic processing in inverted faces.
  • To determine if misalignment affects the holistic processing of inverted faces.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized face-congruency paradigms (standard and complete).
  • Stimulus congruency and orientation were manipulated orthogonally.
  • Computational modeling quantified the contributions of holistic and local information.

Main Results:

  • Inverted faces are processed both locally and holistically.
  • Misalignment significantly disrupts the holistic processing of inverted faces.
  • Computational modeling indicated a greater reliance on local information for inverted faces, especially when incongruent.

Conclusions:

  • Inverted faces are processed holistically, though to a lesser extent than upright faces.
  • The findings challenge previous assumptions and offer a nuanced view of facial information processing.