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 …

Lateral caricatures are transformed faces like caricatures but the transformation is
orthogonal (in the face-space, Valentine, 1991) to the direction of caricaturization. It has …

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 …

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 …

Abstract S. Brennan (1985, Leonardo, 18, 170–178) has developed a computer-
implemented caricature generator based on a holistic theory of caricature. A face is …

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 …

The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that caricatures, relative to
photographs, are 'superfaithful'carriers of information for facial recognition. Subjects were …

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 …

Facial caricatures exaggerate the distinctive features of a face and may elevate the
recognition of a familiar face. We investigate whether the recognition of facial composites, or …

Explanations of the caricature advantage (caricatured faces are recognized faster than
veridicals) usually involve an encoded prototypical norm face (Rhodes, Brennan, & Carey …