Donnelly, Nick and Davidoff, Jules B.. 1999. The Mental Representations of Faces and Houses: Issues Concerning Parts and Wholes. Visual Cognition, 6(3), pp. 319-343. ISSN 1350-6285 [Article]

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We explore the integration of facial features and house parts to form holistic representations of complete objects. In Experiments 1, 2, and 3, we test for evidence of the holistic representation of houses and faces. We do so by testing for a complete over part probe advantage (CPA) in 2AFC recognition and matching tasks. We present evidence consistent with holistic features being represented for both types of stimuli. In Experiments 4 and 5, we examine further theeffect with faces. Experiment 4 shows thatfacial features used in the matching task contribute differentially to CPAs across varying probe delays but with a similar pattern to that found in the recognition task (Experiment 1). Experiment5 shows thatCPAs are mandatory and cannot be removed by precueing with the probe type or the name of the feature to be probed.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/135062899395000
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 1999 Published
Item ID:	4934
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2011 10:28
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2017 14:37
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/4934

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