Configurational Information in Face Perception

By A. Young, D. Hellawell, D. Hay. 1987

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View-tolerant face recognition and Hebbian learning imply mirror-symmetric neural tuning to head orientation (2016, neutral): “Neurons in the ML/MF patches are view-specific, while neurons in AM approach view-invariance.”
Recognizing disguised faces (2012, methodology): “We address this question using the composite face paradigm (Hole, 1994; Young et al., 1987), which provides a measure of the bias to fuse different face parts into a single representation.”
Mechanisms of face perception. (2008, background): “In the composite effect, subjects are slower to identify half of a chimeric face if it is aligned with an inconsistent other half-face than if the two half-faces are misaligned (Young et al 1987).”
Behaviour variability and the Situated Focus Theory of Power (2007, background): “For example, the configuration of a face is processed first before the separate elements of the face, such as the eyes and the mouth (Young, Hellawell, & Hay, 1987 ).”
Face recognition based on non-corresponding region matching (2011, background): “This phenomenon can be illustrated by the experiment of naming the famous people depicted in half faces[18, 28].”
Faces are represented holistically in the human occipito-temporal cortex (2006, methodology): “, 2006) using the most compelling demonstration of holistic face processing reported in the behavioral literature, namely the ‘composite face effect’ (Young et al., 1987).”
The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing (2007, unknown): “Adults find it difficult to recognize the top half of a celebrity’s face when it has been aligned with the bottom half of a different face (Young et al., 1987).”
The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception (2013, unknown): “Again, in their seminal study using a famous face identification task, Young and colleagues were the first to use inversion with composite faces and these authors showed that the parts of aligned inverted stimuli were easier to identify than the parts of upright stimuli (Young et al., 1987, Exp. 2).”
Configural Face Processing Develops more Slowly than Featural Face Processing (2002, background): “When adults are instructed to identify the top half of a composite face, they are impaired, presumably because holistic processing prevents them from attending exclusively to the features in the top half and ignoring the whole Gestalt (Carey and Diamond 1994; Hole 1994; Young et al 1987).”
Same-race faces are perceived more holistically than other-race faces (2006, background): “A recent study using the composite paradigm ( Young et al., 1987 ) also suggests that early (before 6 months) visual experience is necessary for the normal development of holistic processing in adults (Le Grand et al., 2004).”