Fig. 1

Complete composite paradigm to measure holistic processing for face stimuli. In each trial, participants were cued to attend to the top or bottom half of each stimulus pair and judged whether the attended halves were the same or different (attended halves encircled by the red rectangles in the figure). Holistic processing was demonstrated by a lower performance level in the incongruent condition than in the congruent condition, induced by the interference of the irrelevant/unattended halves