Adults' expertise in recognizing faces has been attributed to configural processing. We
distinguish three types of configural processing: detecting the first-order relations that define …

The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face recognition research, yet central
questions related to holistic processing remain unanswered, and debates have thus far …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Some dictionaries still define cognition as the power or faculty of apprehending and
knowing, a usage that harks back to the days when philosophers attributed all mental …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by social impairments, including
inappropriate responses to affective stimuli and nonverbal cues, which may extend to poor …

A key goal of computer vision researchers is to create automated face recognition systems
that can equal, and eventually surpass, human performance. To this end, it is imperative that …

Wearing face masks has become a usual practice in acute infection events inducing the
problem of misinterpreting the emotions of others. Empirical evidence about face masks …

It has been claimed that faces are recognized as a “whole” rather than by the recognition of
individual parts. In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in …

Emotion recognition was investigated in typically developing individuals and individuals with
autism. Experiment 1 tested children (5–7 years, n= 37) with brief video displays of facial …

Presenting a face stimulus upside-down generally causes a larger deficit in perceiving
metric distances between facial features (“configuration”) than local properties of these …