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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Holistic processing, crucial for face recognition, was thought unique to faces or expertise-driven.
  • The role of configural versus featural information in holistic perception remained unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether holistic processing depends on configural information.
  • To determine if specific levels of configural information (first-order, second-order) elicit holistic effects.
  • To explore the link between holistic processing and individual face recognition abilities.

Main Methods:

  • Developed abstract stimuli varying in configural and featural information.
  • Applied classic holistic perception markers: inversion, misalignment, part-whole, and composite effects.
  • Utilized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to model processing patterns.

Main Results:

  • Second-order configural stimuli showed robust holistic effects; featural stimuli did not.
  • First-order configural stimuli also induced holistic effects.
  • CNNs trained on these stimuli replicated the observed holistic processing patterns.
  • Individual face recognition ability correlated with holistic processing of second-order configural stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Holistic processing is fundamentally driven by the representation of spatial configuration.
  • Both first- and second-order configural information can support holistic perception.
  • Second-order configural processing is critically linked to individual face recognition capabilities.