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Alex Estudillo

@ajestudillo.bsky.social

Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at @bournemouthuni. Research interests: Face and object recognition, numerical cognition, neuropsychology. alejandro-estudillo.netlify.app

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To be eligible, you must: ✅ Be presenting a talk or poster at ECVP ✅ Not have completed your PhD yet ✅ Not have received an ECVP Travel Award Register here to be considered 👇 www.testable.org/experiment/4... @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP2026 #Bournemouth

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ECVP 2026 Awards registration is now open! 🏆 Awards include: 💷 £500 Best Talk 💷 £500 Best Poster 🎨 Best Poster in Color Award 📚 2 PeerJ free publications — 1 talk + 1 poster 🧪 2 Testable Pro licences — 1 talk + 1 poster 💻 1 E-Prime licence — 1 talk @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP2026 #Bournemouth

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Overall, the findings suggest that whether holistic processing predicts face memory depends on the task used. To understand why some people are better at recognizing faces, we may need to rethink how holistic processing is conceptualized and measured.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Exploratory factor analysis suggested two components: one shared by face memory, inversion, and part–whole effects; another strongly linked to the composite effect. In other words, holistic face processing may not be a single mechanism.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The key finding: face memory was associated with the face inversion and part–whole effects, but not with the composite face effect. This pattern remained after controlling for non-face object memory.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Participants completed objective tests of face and car memory, as well as inversion, part–whole, composite face, and Navon tasks. The sample included both White British and Malaysian Chinese participants, allowing us to test whether patterns generalized across groups.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We compared three classic measures of holistic face processing: the face inversion effect, the part–whole effect, and the composite face effect. We also asked whether any links with face memory were independent of non-face object memory.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This question matters because holistic processing is often treated as a key mechanism behind face recognition. But previous studies have produced mixed findings, perhaps because “holistic processing” is measured in different ways.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We examined whether face memory is linked to holistic processing—the tendency to process faces as integrated wholes rather than as isolated features.

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🚨 New paper in press in the British Journal of Psychology: Task-specific associations between holistic processing and individual differences in face memor🚨 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... . #FaceRecognition

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Whether individual differences in face identification can be predicted by holistic processing, and whether both share a common underlying mechanism, remain open questions. Past studies exploring this...

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🚨 New paper coming out from the oven!: No Association Between Face Recognition and Spatial Navigation: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia and Super-Recognizers🚨 www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15... #prosopagnosia

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Alex Estudillo @ajestudillo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🚨 New paper recently published in behavioural sciences: Exploring the Role of Foveal and Extrafoveal Processing in Emotion Recognition: A Gaze-Contingent Study 🚨 www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

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Exploring the Role of Foveal and Extrafoveal Processing in Emotion Recognition: A Gaze-Contingent Study

Although the eye-tracking technique has been widely used to passively study emotion recognition, no studies have utilised this technique to actively manipulate eye-gaze strategies during the recogniti...

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