Features are Also Important: Contributions of Featural and Configural Processing to Face Recognition
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 11 (5) , 429-433
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00283
Abstract
It has been suggested that face recognition is primarily based on configural information, with featural information playing little or no role. We investigated this idea by comparing the prototype e...Keywords
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