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SUBMITTER: Chua KW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4153696 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chua Kao-Wei KW Richler Jennifer J JJ Gauthier Isabel I
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 20140303 3
Faces are processed holistically, but the locus of holistic processing remains unclear. We created two novel races of faces (Lunaris and Taiyos) to study how experience with face parts influences holistic processing. In Experiment 1, subjects individuated Lunaris wherein the top, bottom, or both face halves contained diagnostic information. Subjects who learned to attend to face parts exhibited no holistic processing. This suggests that individuation only leads to holistic processing when the wh ...[more]