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SUBMITTER: Visconti di Oleggio Castello M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459439 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Visconti di Oleggio Castello Matteo M Wheeler Kelsey G KG Cipolli Carlo C Gobbini M Ida MI
PloS one 20170605 6
Recognition of personally familiar faces is remarkably efficient, effortless and robust. We asked if feature-based face processing facilitates detection of familiar faces by testing the effect of face inversion on a visual search task for familiar and unfamiliar faces. Because face inversion disrupts configural and holistic face processing, we hypothesized that inversion would diminish the familiarity advantage to the extent that it is mediated by such processing. Subjects detected personally fa ...[more]