{"id":7561,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/configural_perception\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:12","slug":"configural_perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/configural_perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Configural perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assignmentof the spatial relationships between facial features during face processing.&nbsp;Face processing involves not only configural or holistic processing(perceiving the combination of the different parts of a face into a gestalt),but also featural processing. &nbsp;The latter involves&nbsp;sensitivityto&nbsp;first-order relational configuration such that two eyes are above thenose and this is above the mouth&nbsp;to second-order relations resulting fromthe processing of the distances among each feature (e.g., distance between thenose and mouth)&nbsp; and the question of interest is how they interact in thedevelopment of facial recognition, and . &nbsp;A dissociation between configuraland featural processing of faces can be seen in comparing autistic and Williamssyndrome children. &nbsp;Autistic children appear to have a relative strengthin the configural or holistic processing of faces, and those with Williamssyndrome for processing the features of faces as shown by the invertedpresentation of faces. &nbsp;In cases of congenital propagnosia, it is notentirely clear whether it gives rise to&nbsp; process-specific deficiencies, orwhether it is a face-specific impairment. &nbsp;A relatively recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.oxy.edu\/clint\/physio\/article\/Configuralandfeaturalprocessinginhumanswithcongenitalprosopagnosia.pdf\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/sites.oxy.edu\/clint\/physio\/article\/Configuralandfeaturalprocessinginhumanswithcongenitalprosopagnosia.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a>&nbsp;suggeststhere is&nbsp;a face-specific deficit in congenital prosopagnosia, but one thatus pronounced for processing configural facial information.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SeeAutism, Categorical perception, CONLERN, Double dissociation, Face recognition, Face processing,Prosopagnosia, Williams syndrome<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignmentof the spatial relationships between facial features during face processing.&nbsp;Face processing involves not only configural or holistic processing(perceiving the combination of the different parts of a face into a gestalt),but also featural processing. &nbsp;The latter involves&nbsp;sensitivityto&nbsp;first-order relational configuration such that two eyes are above thenose and this is above the mouth&nbsp;to second-order relations resulting fromthe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/configural_perception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Configural perception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}