摘要：In two experiments, the holistic face effect (Tanaka & Farah, 1993) was
investigated by using a learning paradigm with faces which differed in terms of
either componential (COMP) or configural (CONF) properties. When full faces had
been learned, the expected finding of advantageous recognition of holistic
presentations was replicated (Exp. 1). However, when only facial parts had been
learned (Exp. 2), this effect was reduced and even reversed, indicating that
wholistic superiority with both sorts of faces depends on holistic learning
strategies (Leder & Carbon, in press, 2005). These results are in accord
with the theory of encoding specificity (Tulving & Thomson, 1973). Moreover,
the effects were found for COMP and CONF faces, supporting the hypothesis that
holistic and configural processing are two different aspects of face
recognition. Furthermore, when the faces were inverted at test inversion effects
were not only found for CONF but also for COMP faces, indicating some kind of
configural processing for faces that differ in terms of facial components.
关键词：whole-to-part superiority, configural, featural, holistic, face processing, face
recognition
