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In recognizing faces, the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts
March 9, 2012 by NewsBot
How do we recognize a face? To date, most research has answered "holistically": We look at all the features -- eyes, nose, mouth -- simultaneously and, perceiving the relationships among them, gain an advantage over taking in each feature individually. Now a new study overturns this theory.