Understanding caricatures of faces

Lewis, Michael Bevan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-5318 and Johnston, R. A. 1998. Understanding caricatures of faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 51 (2) , pp. 321-346. 10.1080/713755758

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Abstract

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 been reported that lateral caricatures are more difficult to recognize than anti-caricatures (Rhodes & Tremewan, 1994). To investigate this effect, oblique caricatures (transformed obliquely to caricaturing) were generated by morphing between a veridical face and a reference face. Two experiments used a forced-choice similarity task to find which images are perceived to have the least change from the veridical. An advantage for caricatures over anti-caricatures was found, but none was found between oblique and anti-caricatures. Performance of theoretical lateral caricatures was extrapolated from the oblique caricature data. These lateral caricatures would be perceived as more similar to the veridical faces than were the anti-caricatures.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0272-4987
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35547

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