Previous forays into the study of recognition have revealed an advantage for line-drawn and
photographic shape caricatures of faces in reaction-time paradigms. When a presentation …

Caricaturing the distinctive shape of famous faces can produce an advantage in
reactiontime paradigms but the role of distinctive colour and intensity information in …

The perception and recognition of photographic images of famous faces was compared with
the same images transformed to produce caricatures of different degrees of exaggeration …

Three experiments are reported in which the role of facial distinctiveness in line-drawing
representations of famous faces has been examined. In the first subjects were asked to …

Caricatures, which increase the distinctiveness of faces, are generally recognised at least as
well as undistorted images of those faces. However, caricatures seem to facilitate …

Although caricatures are often gross distortions of faces, they frequently appear to be super-
portraits capable of eliciting recognition better than veridical depictions. This may occur …

Faces and other objects that share a configuration present a special problem to the visual
system. Two components of the visual system's solution to this homogeneity problem have …

It has been shown that it is possible to obtain faster and more accurate recognition for a
caricatured face than for a veridical face. This could suggest that there is something special …

In a caricature drawing, the artist graphically exaggerates those features of an individual in
proportion to their deviations from the normative or average face. The paradox of caricature …

Faces all have the same basic elements in the same overall arrangement, and must be
discriminated using variations in this shared configuration. An efficient way to represent …