Holistic representations of internal and external face features are used to support recognition.

Face recognition is impaired when changes are made to external face features (e.g. hairstyle), even when all internal features (i.e. eyes, nose, mouth) remain the same. Eye movement monitoring was used to determine the extent to which altered hairstyles affect processing of face features, thereby sh...

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Main Authors: Jessica Pui Kar eChan, Jennifer D Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00087/full