Relating to the way something is arranged, shaped, or organized as a whole; involving the spatial arrangement or pattern of parts.
From configuration (Latin configur- + -ation) + -al adjective suffix. Used particularly in psychology and design to describe how elements relate to their overall pattern.
In psychology, 'configural processing' means your brain recognizes faces or patterns as *wholes* rather than adding up individual features—this is why you recognize your friend instantly but a robot scanning features slowly cannot.
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