The Reverse-Caricature Effect Revisited: Familiarization With Frontal Facial Caricatures Improves Veridical Face Recognition

摘要

Prior research suggests that recognition of a person's face can be facilitated by exaggerating thedistinctive features of the face during training. We tested if this 'reverse-caricature effect' would berobust to procedural variations that created more difficult learning environments. Specifically, weexamined whether the effect would emerge with frontal rather than three-quarter views, after verybrief exposure to caricatures during the learning phase and after modest rotations of faces during therecognition phase. Results indicate that, even under these difficult training conditions, people aremore accurate at recognizing unaltered faces if they are first familiarized with caricatures of the faces,rather than with the unaltered faces. These findings support the development of new training methodsto improve face recognition.