Childrens recognition of caricatures
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Psychology
RAS ID
165
Abstract
This study examined children's and adults' perception and recognition of facial stimuli that were either systematically exaggerated (caricatures) or de-exaggerated (anticaricatures) relative to a norm face. The results showed that all age groups perceived caricatures as the most distinctive versions of a face and anticaricatures as the least distinctive, although the effect was smallest for 6-year-olds. In general, caricatures were identified as quickly as the veridical faces and faster than the anticaricatures. Across all age groups, participants' familiarity with the stimulus faces interacted with degree of caricature to determine speed of processing as well as choice of best likeness. The results are discussed in relation to the idea that distinctiveness information in a face is represented in relation to a norm. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
DOI
10.1037/0012-1649.38.6.1038
Comments
Chang, P. P., Levine, S. C., & Benson, P. J. (2002). Children's recognition of caricatures. Developmental Psychology, 38(6), 1038. Available here.