Children's recognition of caricatures

P. P. Chang; Philip John Benson; S. C. Levine

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.38.6.1038

Children's recognition of caricatures

P. P. Chang, Philip John Benson, S. C. Levine

Psychology

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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 caricatured 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1038-1051
Number of pages	13
Journal	Developmental Psychology
Volume	38
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.38.6.1038
Publication status	Published - 2002

Keywords

FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS
DISTINCTIVE FACES
UNFAMILIAR FACES
SPATIAL LOCATION
EXEMPLAR MODEL
MEMORY
RACE
REPRESENTATIONS
IDENTIFICATION
EXAGGERATION

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Children's recognition of caricatures

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