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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2011;2(6):666–675. doi: 10.1002/wcs.146

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Figure 1

Figure 1

Example of a featural change (i.e., eyes) made by switching the eyes of the two original faces on the left to make the two altered faces on the right (A). Example of configural changes (i.e., male face: spacing between the eyes; female face: spacing between the nose and mouth) with original faces on the left and altered faces on the right (B). Example of stimuli that can be used to examine holistic face processing (C). If asked to decide whether the top parts of two faces are identical or different, the composite faces on the left (which have different bottom parts) make it harder to simply process the top part of the face in isolation from the bottom part of the face – a task that is easier when the top and bottom parts of the face are segregated as shown on the right.