title: Configural face processing: a meta-analytic survey.
abstract: In the field of face processing, the configural hypothesis is defended by many researchers. It is often claimed that this thesis is robustly supported by a large number of experiments exploring the face-inversion effect, the composite face effect, the face superiority effect, and the negative face effect. However, this claim is generally based on a rudimentary and approximate vote-counting approach. In this paper, I use meta-analyses to examine the relevant literature in more depth. The analysis supports the vote-counting argument.
authors.affiliation: University of Louvain, Institute of Research in Psychological Sciences, Place du cardinal Mercier 10, 1348-Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. Raymond.bruyer@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bruyer
mesh_terms: D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*