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A Review and Clarification of the Terms “holistic,” “configural,” and “relational” in the Face Perception Literature

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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Title
A Review and Clarification of the Terms “holistic,” “configural,” and “relational” in the Face Perception Literature
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00559
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Authors

Daniel W. Piepers, Rachel A. Robbins

Abstract

It is widely agreed that the human face is processed differently from other objects. However there is a lack of consensus on what is meant by a wide array of terms used to describe this "special" face processing (e.g., holistic and configural) and the perceptually relevant information within a face (e.g., relational properties and configuration). This paper will review existing models of holistic/configural processing, discuss how they differ from one another conceptually, and review the wide variety of measures used to tap into these concepts. In general we favor a model where holistic processing of a face includes some or all of the interrelations between features and has separate coding for features. However, some aspects of the model remain unclear. We propose the use of moving faces as a way of clarifying what types of information are included in the holistic representation of a face.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Serbia 1 <1%
Unknown 290 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 27%
Student > Master 47 16%
Student > Bachelor 37 12%
Researcher 30 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 5%
Other 48 16%
Unknown 41 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 169 57%
Neuroscience 32 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 3%
Computer Science 2 <1%
Other 17 6%
Unknown 55 18%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2022.
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#7,638,640
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#11,054
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#71,695
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#193
of 482 outputs
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