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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A paradoxical finding from recent studies of face perception is that observers are error-prone
and inconsistent when judging the identity of unfamiliar faces, but nevertheless reasonably …

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 …

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 …

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