Holistic vs. analytic visual perception of human body postures and actions: Similarities and differences with face perception. KU Leuven
Like human faces, human bodies can provide important visual information for social communication and interaction. It is generally assumed that human faces are processed holistically and not only analytically: Local facial features are not perceived and represented independently of each other; instead, a face is perceived as an integrated whole. One observation that has been taken as evidence for holistic face processing is the face inversion ...