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Face recognition relies on detecting subtle differences between facial parts (components) and
their spatial relations, so-called configural information (for a recent review see [2]). Psychophysical
experiments are reported, in which a new method was used to test component
and configural processing separately [3]. An important role for both types of information was
revealed in unfamiliar as well as familiar face recognition and only quantitative but no qualitative
differences were found. The results could be modeled using a computational framework
based on key-frames in which the component and configural route were explicitly implemented
[4]. In a new series of experiments, the Inter-Extra-Ortho paradigm by B¨ulthoff and Edelman
[1] was applied to investigate face recognition across viewpoint. Systematic effects of viewpoint
were found that are consistent with local view interpolation schemes and the proposed
framework based on key-frames [5]. In a recent study the role of component and configural information
in view-based face recognition was investigated by combining the Inter-Extra-Ortho
paradigm with the psychophysical method for selective testing of processing component and
configural information. Interestingly, processing of parts was more dependent on viewpoint
than processing of configural information. The same result was found for the computational
model mentioned above, in which the component and configural processing route have been
implemented. The psychophysical and computational results are also discussed in respect to a
third route to recognition in which different views of a face are temporally associated [6].
