The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception

Rossion, Bruno

doi:10.1080/13506285.2013.772929

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“…Face Inversion Task (Maurer et al 2002)). When task conditions disrupt the holistic percept, face recognition performance is typically altered in healthy controls (the "task effect") (Rossion 2013;Rossion and Gauthier 2002). Neuroimaging studies in healthy controls reliably report greater activation in the fusiform gyrus during "intact" holistic face processing conditions, and conversely show decreased fusiform activation during conditions that disrupt the gestalt percept (Kanwisher and Yovel 2006).…”

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“…Taken together, our findings suggest that reduced activation in the right fusiform gyrus is related to facial affect recognition deficits in TBI per se, rather than other visual-perceptual aspects of facial perception (such as basic visual discrimination of features). Given that the fusiform gyrus has been routinely linked with holistic face processing (Rossion 2013;Kanwisher and Yovel 2006), we propose that the behavioral mechanism underlying facial affect recognition impairments after TBI may be related to deficits with integrating face features into a gestalt representation. This postulation should be empirically tested in future studies, ideally including both behavioral measures of holistic processing and neuroimaging with a larger sample size.…”

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Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

Neumann

McDonald

West

et al. 2015

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

Neumann

McDonald

West

et al. 2015

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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“…The reliability of the composite task in Experiments 1 and 2 was within the range reported by Ross, Richler, and Gauthier (in press In addition to the change of recognition tests, we also made some changes to the composite task in Experiment 3. Rossion (2013) argued that there are many procedural differences between the studies that have used the complete paradigm (upon which our procedures for Experiments 1 and 2 were based) and the studies that have used the partial paradigm, differences which could have confounded the debate around which measure is more appropriate. Thus, in Experiment 3, we matched our procedure to that used by (with the exception of the additional complete paradigm trials).…”

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The other-race effect in perception and recognition: Insights from the complete composite task.

Horry¹,

Cheong²,

Brewer³

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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People are more accurate at recognizing faces of their own race than faces from other races, a phenomenon known as the other-race effect. Other-race effects have also been reported in some perceptual tasks. Across three experiments, White and Chinese participants completed recognition tests as well as the complete paradigm of the composite task, which measures participants' abilities to selectively attend to the target region of a face while ignoring the task-irrelevant region of the face. Each task was completed with both own-and other-race faces. At a group level, participants showed significant own-race effects in recognition, but not in the composite task. At an individual difference level, the results provided no support for the hypothesis that a deficit in holistic processing for other-race faces drives the other-race effect in recognition. We therefore conclude that the other-race effect in recognition is not driven by the processes that underpin the composite effect.

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“…; Farah, Wilson, Drain, & Tanaka, 1998;Maurer, Le Grand, & Mondloch, 2002;Rossion, 2013). One convincing demonstration of holistic face processing is that the visual system cannot selectively process one facial part without any influence from other parts within the face (Cheung, Richler, Palmeri, & Gauthier, 2008;Hole, 1994;Tanaka & Farah, 1993;Young, Hellawell, & Hay, 1987).…”

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Holistic processing of static and moving faces.

Zhao

Bülthoff

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Humans’ face ability develops and matures with extensive experience in perceiving, recognizing, and interacting with faces that move most of the time. However, how facial movements affect 1 core aspect of face ability—holistic face processing—remains unclear. Here we investigated the influence of rigid facial motion on holistic and part-based face processing by manipulating the presence of facial motion during study and at test in a composite face task. The results showed that rigidly moving faces were processed as holistically as static faces (Experiment 1). Holistic processing of moving faces persisted whether facial motion was presented during study, at test, or both (Experiment 2). Moreover, when faces were inverted to eliminate the contributions of both an upright face template and observers’ expertise with upright faces, rigid facial motion facilitated holistic face processing (Experiment 3). Thus, holistic processing represents a general principle of face perception that applies to both static and dynamic faces, rather than being limited to static faces. These results support an emerging view that both perceiver-based and face-based factors contribute to holistic face processing, and they offer new insights on what underlies holistic face processing, how information supporting holistic face processing interacts with each other, and why facial motion may affect face recognition and holistic face processing differently.

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The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception

Cited by 316 publications

References 274 publications

Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

The other-race effect in perception and recognition: Insights from the complete composite task.

Holistic processing of static and moving faces.

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