Is holistic processing ensemble coding?

Is Facial Expression Processing Holistic?

Most studies examine holistic processing with respect to facial identity, but at least one study has also looked at holistic processing of facial expressions (Calder, Young, Keane, & Dean, 2000). However, this work used the partial composite paradigm, which is known to exhibit bias effects (Richler, Cheung, & Gauthier, 2011). The complete composite paradigm (Gauthier & Bukach, 2007) provides a ...

Holistic Processing Develops Because it is Good

In this paper, we investigate the question, “what are the best features for face identification?” Ullman et al. used mutual information as measurement of how good a feature is for a class [Ullman et al., 2002]. Their experiments suggested that features of intermediate complexity are best in tasks of face vs. non-face and cars vs. non-cars. We are interested in the tasks of face identification a...

Processing of Individual Items during Ensemble Coding of Facial Expressions

There is growing evidence that human observers are able to extract the mean emotion or other type of information from a set of faces. The most intriguing aspect of this phenomenon is that observers often fail to identify or form a representation for individual faces in a face set. However, most of these results were based on judgments under limited processing resource. We examined a wider range...

Holistic Symbol Processing

Holistic Processing of Faces 1 RUNNING HEAD: Holistic Processing of Faces Holistic Processing of Faces: Bridging Paradigms

Several sequential matching composite face paradigms are used to assess “holistic processing” of faces. In the Selective Attention paradigm, participants decide whether one face part (e.g., top) is the same as a previously seen face part. This judgment is affected by whether the irrelevant part is also the same or different. This failure of selective attention implies holistic processing. Howev...