Re-plotted data from Richler, Tanaka, Brown & Gauthier (2008), Experiment 2. In this version of the composite task, the study face was always presented in an adjacent format, where the top and bottom face halves were presented side-by-side. The test face could be either aligned or adjacent. A congruency effect was observed when the test face was aligned, even though the study face was presented in an unusual configuration that could not be encoded to fit a face template.