Configural processing is important for face recognition, but its role in other types of face processing is unclear. In the present study, participants made judgments of head tilt for faces in which the vertical position of the internal facial region was varied. We found a highly reliable relationship between inner-face position and perceived head tilt. We also found that changes in inner-face p...

Although face perception is often characterized as depending on holistic, rather than part-based, processing, there is behavioral evidence for independent representations of face parts. Recent work has linked "face-selective" regions defined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to holistic processing, but the response of these areas to face parts remains unclear. Here we examine pa...

29 Although the right fusiform face area (FFA) is often linked to holistic processing, new data 30 suggest this region also encodes part-based face representations. We examined this question by 31 assessing the metric of neural similarity for faces using a continuous-carry over fMRI design. 32 Using faces varying along dimensions of eye and mouth identity, we tested whether these axes 33 are co...

The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of the own-race advantage in facial expression perception. In Experiment 1, we investigated Western Caucasian and Chinese participants' perception and categorization of facial expressions of six basic emotions that included two pairs of confusable expressions (fear and surprise; anger and disgust). People were slightly better at identifying fa...

The reliable finding that trait judgments of faces yield better recognition memory than do feature judgments of faces is conceptualized as an encoding-specificity effect. Specifically, both trait-judgment encodings of faces and face-recognition tests are argued to be holistic, involving topographical information with between-feature processing. Consistent with the concept that encoding and retr...

Nurse Healer OBJECTIVES Theoretical I Explore the Theory of Integral Nursing and its application to holistic nursing. I Link Florence Nightingale's legacy of healing , leadership, global action, and her work as a nurse and citizen activist to 21st-century integral and holistic nursing.

Recognition of faces typically occurs via holistic processing where individual features are combined to provide an overall facial representation. However, when faces are inverted, there is greater reliance on featural processing where faces are recognized based on their individual features. These findings are based on a substantial number of studies using 2-dimensional (2D) faces and it is unkn...

The unit-decade compatibility effect has challenged the model of holistic number magnitude processing, suggesting decomposed processing of multi-digit numbers. Recent evidence confirms that decomposed processing of decade and unit magnitudes occurs in parallel. However, the mode of presentation of multi-digit numbers may affect the processing mode (holistic vs. decomposed, parallel vs. sequenti...

XML has emerged as a popular formatting and exchanging language for nearly all kinds of data, including scientific data. Efficient query processing in XML databases is of great importance for numerous applications. Trees or twigs are the core structural elements in XML data and queries. Recently, a holistic computing approach has been proposed for extended XML twig patterns, i.e., B-Twigs (Bool...

This paper examines two facial composite systems that present multiple faces during construction to more closely resemble natural face processing. We evaluated a ‘parallel’ version of PRO-fit, which presents facial features in sets of six or twelve, and EvoFIT, a system in development, that contains a holistic face model and an evolutionary interface. The PRO-fit parallel interface turned out n...