Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2011 Apr;22(4):464-71. doi: 10.1177/0956797611401753. Epub 2011 Mar 10.
The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face-recognition research. In the study reported here, we demonstrated that holistic processing predicts face-recognition abilities on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and on a perceptual face-identification task. Our findings validate a large body of work that relies on the assumption that holistic processing is related to face recognition. These findings also reconcile the study of face recognition with the perceptual-expertise work it inspired; such work links holistic processing of objects with people's ability to individuate them. Our results differ from those of a recent study showing no link between holistic processing and face recognition. This discrepancy can be attributed to the use in prior research of a popular but flawed measure of holistic processing. Our findings salvage the central role of holistic processing in face recognition and cast doubt on a subset of the face-perception literature that relies on a problematic measure of holistic processing.
整体加工的概念是人脸识别研究的基石。在本研究中,我们证明了整体加工可以预测剑桥面孔记忆测试和知觉面孔识别任务中的人脸识别能力。我们的发现验证了大量依赖于整体加工与面孔识别相关的工作。这些发现还将人脸识别研究与它所启发的知觉专长研究联系起来;这种研究将物体的整体加工与人们区分它们的能力联系起来。我们的结果与最近一项表明整体加工与人脸识别之间没有联系的研究结果不同。这种差异可以归因于先前研究中使用了一种流行但有缺陷的整体加工测量方法。我们的发现挽救了整体加工在人脸识别中的核心作用,并对依赖于有问题的整体加工测量方法的一部分面孔知觉文献提出了质疑。