Direct Evidence that Inversion of Faces Disrupts Configural Processing

Inversion of a face can be readily shown to interfere with the matching or recognition of that face. Often this disruption is attributed to the inability to employ a configural representation whereby the whole face can be assimilated and judged as an integrated representation. However, direct evidence for this explanation has been lacking. Configural effects are enabled by the overlap of large receptive fields (r.f.s) centered at varied...