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One aspect of face perception that has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years is how the different fea-tures of a face (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth) are processed and rep-resented by the visual system. One possibility is that each facial feature is analyzed independently, and recognition involves simply integrating all of the different elements of a face (i.e., a piecemeal analysis; Farah, Wilson, Drain, & Tanaka, 1998; Maurer, Grand, & Mondloch, 2002). Another possibility is that, similar to the Gestalt notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts, a face is analyzed as a single unified entity, and the spatial relationships among the features are encoded as part of the representation (i.e., a holistic analy-sis). This process can allow an observer to make better use of information than if each of the individual features is repre-sented in isolation (Farah et al., 1998; Maurer et al., 2002