Selective deficits in nonliving things are less common , however the presence of even a few cases provides evidence of a double dissociation , suggesting that the functional brain regions associated with processing living and nonliving things are independent of each other. Rank order words, non-face objects and faces in terms of their demand on holistic processing. Support your ordering with experimental evidence. Evidence that faces require the most holistic processing can be found in the experiment described on pg. Facial features are recognized much better when presented in the context of the whole face than when presented in isolation, presumably because they rely more on holistic processing.
Objects can become very difficult to recognize when a distinctive feature is missing.