The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face recognition research, yet central
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It has been claimed that faces are recognized as a “whole” rather than by the recognition of
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Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
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Face perception is considered a remarkable visual ability in humans that is subject to a
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Face recognition is thought to rely on specific mechanisms underlying a perceptual bias
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Why do some people recognize faces easily and others frequently make mistakes in
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