Face familiarity predicts perceptual field size in a shared holistic processing mechanism

The results showed that, under upright conditions, familiar faces were processed more holistically than unfamiliar faces, as reflected in a higher proportion of peripheralface choices, and that subjective familiarity was positively correlated with this proportion in both experiments; under inverted conditions, neither the difference nor the correlation was significant.

After controlling for common method variance and individual response biases, holistic processing levels for familiar and unfamiliar faces still showed a stable positive correlation.