Holistic Processing Is Not Correlated With Face-Identification Accuracy
- 17 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 21 (1), 38-43
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797609356508
Abstract
The current study tested the widespread assumption that holistic processing is important for the identification of upright faces. In two experiments, we show that (a) there are large individual differences in the magnitude of the composite face effect and face-identification accuracy and (b) the correlation between the magnitude of the composite face effect and face-identification accuracy is essentially zero. These findings are inconsistent with the claim that holistic processing, as indexed by the composite face effect, significantly influences accuracy in a face-identification task.Keywords
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