I know that our visual system uses wrapped eye moments called saccades to detect a human face and reference points to remember objects. Are there any references to prove it?
If you are looking for the neural system responsible for face recognition,you can look at a nice review titled 'The distributed human neural system for face perception' of JV Haxby et al., 2000 (Trends in Cognitive Sciences – Vol. 4, No. 6, June 2000).