Faces are represented holistically in the human occipito-temporal cortex

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The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception (2013, unknown): “For this reason, but also to avoid pixel-by-pixel comparisons, one can systematically change the size and/or position of the faces to match (e.g., Schiltz & Rossion, 2006), so that even in the ‘‘same’’ trials, the top halves to match are physically different.”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, background): “This may indicate that either the deficit in these subjects arises at a later stage of processing or the FFAs in these subjects exist but do not function normally (Schiltz & Rossion 2006).”
Separate channels for processing form, texture, and color: evidence from FMRI adaptation and visual object agnosia. (2010, background): “Similarly, when asked to discriminate faces, observers do not use only shape (local/global, Schiltz and Rossion 2006; Liu et al. 2010) but rely also on surface features such as skin color and pigmentation (Bruce and Langton 1994; Vuong et al. 2005; Nestor and Tarr 2008).”
Perception of Face Parts and Face Configurations: An fMRI Study (2010, unknown): “…Skudlarski, & Gore, 1999; Haxby et al., 1999; Kanwisher, Tong, & Nakayama, 1998; but see Aguirre, Singh, & DʼEsposito, 1999), the composite effect (Schiltz & Rossion, 2006), and the discrimination of the fine distance among face parts (Rotshtein,Geng,Driver, &Dolan, 2007; Yovel&Kanwisher, 2004;…”