New Research On How Humans Recognize Faces

Never Forget A Face, Or Parts of One (Psych Central)

Prior opinion held that humans recognized the face as a whole, meaning that there is something about the picture created by the entire face – the particular arrangement of a face’s eyes, nose, and mouth and not just these features themselves – that makes it easier for the human brain to make a positive ID.

The new research suggests differently.

The study is published (behind a pay-wall) in Psychological Science. You can purchase it, or read the Abstract here.