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The development of holistic face processing: An evaluation with the complete design of the composite task
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The composite paradigm is widely used to quantify holistic processing (HP) of faces: participants perform a sequential same-different task on one half (e.g., top) of a test-face relative to the corresponding half of a study-face.
There is, however, debate regarding the appropriate design in this task. In the partial design, the irrelevant halves
(e.g., bottom) of test- and study-faces are always different; an alignment effect indexes HP. In the complete
design, besides alignment, congruency between the irrelevant and critical halves of the test-face is manipulated
regarding the same/different response status of the study-face. The HP indexed in the complete design does not
confound congruency and alignment and has good construct and convergent validities. De Heering, Houthuys, &
Rossion (2007) argued that HP is mature as early as 4-year-olds but employed the partial design. Here we revisit
this claim, testing four groups of 4- to 9/10 year-old children and two groups of adults. We found evidence of HP
only from 6-year-olds on when considering the complete design, whereas significant alignment effects were
found in the index adopted in the partial design already in 4-year-olds but which we demonstrate that reflects
other factors besides HP, including response bias associated with congruency.
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Face processing Holistic processing Composite task Complete design Partial design Development of holistic processing of faces
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Ventura, P., Leite, I., & Fernandes, T. (2018). The development of holistic face processing: an evaluation with the complete design of the composite task. Acta Psychologica, 191, 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.08.015
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Elsevier