We readily and effortlessly recognise the faces of our friends and the objects around us, but these cannot be simple tasks for our visual systems. Faces are all extremely similar as visual patterns. We see objects from different viewpoints and in different arrangements. How do our visual systems solve these problems? The contributors to this volume attempt to answer this question by considering how analytic and holistic processes contribute to the perception of faces, objects, and scenes. The result is a book which makes a significant contribution to research and theory on human object identification and recognition.

Contributors Introduction: Analytic and Holistic Processing--The View through Different Lenses, Mary A. Peterson and Gillian Rhodes 1. What Are the Routes to Face Recognition?, James C. Bartlett, Jean H. Searcy, and Herve Abdi 2. The Holistic Representation of Faces, James W. Tanaka and Martha J. Farah 3. When Is a Face Not a Face? The Effects of Misorientation on Mechanisms of Face Perception, Janice E. Murray, Gillian Rhodes, and Maria Schuchinsky 4. Isolating Holistic Processing in Faces (And Perhaps Objects), Elinor McKone, Paolo Martini, and Ken Nakayama 5. Diagnostic Use of Scale Information for Componential and Holistic Recognition, Philippe G. Schyns and Frederic Gosselin 6. Image-Based Recognition of Biological Motion, Scenes, and Objects, Isabelle Bulthoff and Heinrich H. Bulthoff 7. Visual Object Recognition: Can a Single Mechanism Suffice?, Michael J. Tarr 8. The Complementary Properties of Holistic and Analytic Representations of Shape, John E. Hummel 9. Relative Dominance of Holistic and Component Properties in the Perceptual Organization of Visual Objects, Ruth Kimchi 10. Overlapping Partial Configurations in Object Memory: An Alternative Solution to Classic Problems in Perception and Recognition, Mary A. Peterson 11. Neuropsychological Approaches to Perceptual Organization: Evidence from Visual Agnosia, Marlene Behrmann 12. Scene Perception: What We Can Learn from Visual Integration and Change Detection, Daniel J. Simons, Stephen R. Mitroff, and Steven L. Franconeri 13. Eye Movements, Visual Memory, and Scene Representation, John M. Henderson and Andrew Hollingworth Index

Analytic and Holistic Processes Edited by Gilian Rhodes, The University of Western Australia, and Mary A. Peterson, University of Arizona

"This volume focuses on the current status of the debate between the Structuralist orientation, which emphasizes the role elements, and the Gestalt psychologists who argue that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. "-SciTech.