Featural vs. configurational information in faces
A conceptual and empirical analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9619962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam S Rakover (University of Haifa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-30 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1348/000712602162427 |
| PMID | 11839099 |
| OpenAlex | W2022328803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
The perception and memory of faces have been accounted for by the processing of two kinds of facial information: featural and configurational. The starting point of this article is the definition and accepted usage of these two concepts of facial information. I discuss these definitions and their various ramifications from three aspects: methodological, theoretical and empirical. In the section on methodology, I review several of the basic manipulations for changing facial information. In the theoretical section, I consider four fundamental hypotheses associated with these two kinds of facial information: the featural, configurational, holistic and norm hypotheses (the norm‐based hypothesis and the ‘hierarchy of schemas’ hypothesis). In the section on empirical evidence, I survey relevant studies on the topic and consider these hypotheses through a description of various empirical phenomena that carry clear implications for the subject of the study. In conclusion, I propose two alternative directions for future research: first, a ‘task‐information’ approach, which involves specifying what information is used for different tasks; and secondly, taking a different approach to the definition of the visual features for face processing, for example by using principal components analysis (PCA)
Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Empirical research · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Face perception · Hierarchy · Information processing · Linguistics · Perception · Computer Science · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Psychology · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
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Comparing Inverted Faces to Upright Faces Using Similarity or Mental Rotation
Why Is an Inverted Car Identified Much Better Than an Inverted Face
Influence of subjective difficulty on the degree of configural and featural processing in face recognition 1
Holistic Processing of Recognition Memory for Face Identity
Red, Green, Blue, Red, Argh! A Missing Shift in Processing
Faces in the museum
Are Faces Special?
Configurational Information in Face Perception
Parts and Wholes in Face Recognition
Forest before trees
Looking at upside-down faces.
What is "special" about face perception?
Object categories and expertise
A Unified Account of the Effects of Distinctiveness, Inversion, and Race in Face Recognition
Upside‐down faces
Can caricatures really produce distinctiveness effects
Self priming from distinctive and caricatured faces
Prototype formation of faces
Understanding face recognition
Development of face recognition
Development of face recognition
Recent views of conceptual structure
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |