Congenital Prosopagnosics Show Reduced Configural Effects in an Odd-Man-Out Detection Task

One potential explanation for the deficit in holistic processing exhibited by congenital prosopagnosics (CPs) is that CPs have smaller receptive fields (r.f.s) in face selective regions (Witthoft et al., 2016). Large, overlapping receptive fields allow small differences in similar faces to affect the activation of cells whose r.f.s are distributed throughout the face. Xu et al. (2014) demonstrated that the face configural effect, described as...