The many faces of configural processing.

By Daphne Maurer, R. L. Grand, Catherine J. Mondloch. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing (2007, neutral): “Unlike other objects, faces elicit holistic processing (Tanaka & Farah, 1993 ): Their parts are integrated into a gestalt that allows adults to see the face as a whole, thereby reducing the accessibility of information about individual features (for a review, see Maurer, Le Grand, & Mondloch, 2002”
An investigation of basic facial expression recognition in autism spectrum disorders (2008, background): “…Wilson, Drain, & Tanaka, 1998; Maurer, Le Grand, & Mondloch, 2002; Rakover, 2002; Sergent, 1984; Tanaka & Farah, 1993; Yovel & Kanwisher, 2004) but Maurer et al. (2002) outlined three types of ‘‘configural’’ processing that are integral to the development of typical expertise in face processing:…”
Visuo-haptic multisensory object recognition, categorization, and representation (2014, background): “…object constancy across orientation changes, the visual system also has to contend with variations the size of the retinal image that arise from changes in object-observer distance: the same object can produce retinal images that in size depending on whether it is near to, or far from, the…”
Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition (2013, background): “Importantly, face inversion, i.e., a rotation of the stimuli by 1808, is known to disrupt both second-order configural and holistic processing (e.g., Maurer et al., 2002).”
The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception (2013, neutral): “It is no longer the case, with all sorts of distinctions having been introduced, and a popular view is that there are ‘‘many faces’’ of configural/holistic processing (Carey, 1992; Maurer et al., 2002).”
Recognizing disguised faces (2012, background): “Picture-plane inversion has been previously assumed to disrupt the processing of second-order relations in faces (e.g., variation in the spacing between features; for a review, see Maurer et al., 2002).”
Same-race faces are perceived more holistically than other-race faces (2006, background): “Other empirical observations such as the ‘‘face composite effect’’ (Young, Hellawell, & Hay, 1987), the whole/part advantage (Tanaka & Farah, 1993), the ‘‘caricature effect’’ (Rhodes, Brennan, & Carey, 1987), and the ‘‘Thatcher illusion’’ (Thompson, 1980) have also been related to the processing of ”
Same-race faces are perceived more holistically than other-race faces (2004, background): “Even though it is widely acknowledged in the literature that faces are handled holistically, the relationship between such holistic processing and the ability to recognize individual faces is not well documented and usually not discussed in the literature (e.g., Maurer et al., 2002).”
A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. (2003, background): “The development of a visual expertize at recognizing faces at the individual level appears to require the fast extraction of con®gural relationships (Maurer et al., 2002), a mechanism that may extend to the discrimination of non-face categories from visually homogeneous categories following…”
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition. (2009, positive): “Inversion mainly disrupts the configural processing of faces and, like objects, inverted faces are processed analytically, in a feature-based manner (Maurer et al., 2002; Rhodes et al., 1993; Rossion and Gauthier, 2002).”