This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it
shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic …

Representing the absence of objects is psychologically demanding. People are slower, less
confident and show lower metacognitive sensitivity (the alignment between subjective …

Face pareidolia occurs when random or ambiguous inanimate objects are perceived as
faces. While real faces automatically receive prioritized attention compared with nonface …

Research on face sensitivity is of particular relevance during the rapidly evolving Covid-19
pandemic leading to social isolation, but also calling for intact interaction and sharing …

Visual words and faces differ in their structural properties, but both are objects of high
expertise. Holistic processing is said to characterize expert face recognition, but the extent to …

The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down
impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects …

Examining hedonic questions of processing fluency, objective stimulus clarity, and
goodness-of-fit in face perception, across three experiments (blur, contrast, occlusion) in …

The question of whether word and face recognition rely on overlapping or dissociable neural
and cognitive mechanisms received considerable attention in the literature. In the present …

The set size effect during visual search indexes the effects of processing load and thus the
efficiency of perceptual mechanisms. Our goal was to investigate whether individuals with …

Holistic processing (HP) of faces refers to the obligatory, simultaneous processing of the
parts and their relations, and it emerges over the course of development. HP is manifest in a …