Abstract It is widely accepted that holistic processing important for face perception. However, it remains unclear whether the other-race effect (ORE) (i.e. superior recognition own-race faces) arises from reduced of faces. To address this issue, we adopted a cross-cultural design where Malaysian Chinese, African, European Caucasian and Australian participants performed four different tasks: (1...

Congenital prosopagnosia is a selective deficit in face identification that is present from birth. Previously, behavioral deficits in face recognition and differences in the neuroanatomical structure and functional activation of face processing areas have been documented mostly in separate studies. Here, we propose a neural network model of congenital prosopagnosia which relates behavioral and ...

Although it is acknowledged that adults integrate features into a representation of the whole face, there is still some disagreement about the onset and developmental course of holistic face processing. We tested adults and children from 4 to 6 years of age with the same paradigm measuring holistic face processing through an adaptation of the composite face effect [Young, A. W., Hellawell, D., ...