ArticleJournal of vision2015
About-face on face recognition ability and holistic processing.
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- The role of expansion and adaptability of face-space for individual differences in face identity processing.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Two faces of holistic face processing: Facilitation and interference underlying part-whole and composite effects.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- The face inversion effect does not provide a pure measure of holistic face processing.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The role of inversion and face masks on simultaneous and delayed face matching tasks.PloS one · 2024Article
- Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- The composite effect reveals that human (but not other primate) faces are special to humans.PloS one · 2023Article
- Face-Processing Differences Present in Grapheme-Color Synesthetes.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- The other-race effect and holistic processing across racial groups.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Development of Holistic Face Processing From Childhood and Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Chinese Individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Orientation-invariance of individual differences in three face processing tasks.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Early identity recognition of familiar faces is not dependent on holistic processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Global precedence effects account for individual differences in both face and object recognition performance.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Article
- On Response Bias in the Face Congruency Effect for Internal and External Features.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Validation of the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Test.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Not so fast! Response times in the computerized Benton Face Recognition Test may not reflect face recognition ability.Cognitive neuropsychologyArticle
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Abstract
Previous work found a small but significant relationship between holistic processing measured with the composite task and face recognition ability measured by the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT; Duchaine & Nakayama, 2006). Surprisingly, recent work using a different measure of holistic processing (Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Test [VHPT-F]; Richler, Floyd, & Gauthier, 2014) and a larger sample found no evidence for such a relationship. In Experiment 1 we replicate this unexpected result, finding no relationship between holistic processing (VHPT-F) and face recognition ability (CFMT). A key difference between the VHPT-F and other holistic processing measures is that unique face parts are used on each trial in the VHPT-F, unlike in other tasks where a small set of face parts repeat across the experiment. In Experiment 2, we test the hypothesis that correlations between the CFMT and holistic processing tasks are driven by stimulus repetition that allows for learning during the composite task. Consistent with our predictions, CFMT performance was correlated with holistic processing in the composite task when a small set of face parts repeated over trials, but not when face parts did not repeat. A meta-analysis confirms that relationships between the CFMT and holistic processing depend on stimulus repetition. These results raise important questions about what is being measured by the CFMT, and challenge current assumptions about why faces are processed holistically.
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