Using the well-known composite illusion as a marker of the holistic perception of faces, we tested how prolonged visual experience with a specific population of faces (4- to 6-year-old children) modulates the face perception system in adulthood.
In such a theory the characteristic nature of an animal is respected and knowledge of this nature is intimately related to a more aesthetic and holistic perception of animals.
The similar impacts of the grouping cues manipulation on holistic processing, as indexed by the congruency effect, for upright and inverted faces appears inconsistent with a contribution of the perceptual grouping cues to the typically orientation-specific holistic perception of faces.
In some ways, this is reminiscent of the holistic perception of written words (Ehri, 2005).
The results of two empirical studies indicate that the holistic perception of online settings enhances emotional reactions and leads to desired behavioral outcomes.
They weigh the impact that coming out would have beyond its effect on their personal or private lives, making the decision to come out based on how it will effect the holistic perception of the gay community.
We cannot exclude other possible factors that might contribute to the current results such as the Gestalt effect based on the holistic perception of all congruent arrows, information reduction [18], or perceptual grouping [4].
These results suggest that grouping mechanisms, typically involved in the perception of objecthood more generally, might contribute in important ways to the holistic perception of faces.
The impact of perceptual grouping cues on sensitivity (d′) for part judgments of upright, but not of inverted, faces when the presentation time was only sufficient to allow for holistic perception of upright faces is consistent with this effect influencing the specialized orientation-specific mechanisms supporting holistic face perception.
This indicates a stronger holistic perception for adult faces in novices, but an equal amount of holistic face perception for adult and children faces in experts.
