Rodríguez Jobany, Bortfeld Heather, Rudomín Isaac, Hernández Benjamín, Gutiérrez-Osuna Ricardo
Texas A&M University, USA.
Appl Cogn Psychol. 2009 Jul 1;23(5):733-742. doi: 10.1002/acp.1539.
Prior research suggests that recognition of a person's face can be facilitated by exaggerating the distinctive features of the face during training. We tested if this 'reverse-caricature effect' would be robust to procedural variations that created more difficult learning environments. Specifically, we examined whether the effect would emerge with frontal rather than three-quarter views, after very brief exposure to caricatures during the learning phase and after modest rotations of faces during the recognition phase. Results indicate that, even under these difficult training conditions, people are more 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 methods to improve face recognition.
先前的研究表明，在训练过程中夸大面部的独特特征可以促进对一个人面部的识别。我们测试了这种“反向漫画效应”对于创造更具挑战性学习环境的程序变化是否具有稳健性。具体而言，我们研究了在学习阶段对面部漫画进行非常短暂的曝光后，以及在识别阶段对面部进行适度旋转后，该效应是否会在正面视图而非四分之三视图中出现。结果表明，即使在这些困难的训练条件下，如果人们首先熟悉面部漫画而非未改变的面部，他们在识别未改变的面部时会更准确。这些发现支持开发新的训练方法以改善面部识别。
