Two faces of holistic face processing: Facilitation and interference underlying part-whole and composite effects

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rnxts
• Publication Date: 2023-08-12T05:01:41Z
• Authors: Haiyang Jin; William Hayward; Olivia S. Cheung
• Keywords: Facilitation

Holistic processing, a strong tendency to process multiple features together, is regarded as hallmark of face perception. effects can be revealed by several tasks, including the part-whole task (PW), standard composite (SC), and complete (CC). Although holistic are readily observed using these lack correlations among mixed findings across tasks when examining various populations or manipulations pose questions about how should understood. We distinguished facilitation interference within in CC, found that effect PW appeared correlated with but not whereas SC was CC. These suggest clarifying roles critical for understanding processing.