Hagen Margaret A, Perkins David
Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Perception. 2013;42(11):1144-50. doi: 10.1068/p120055n.
The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that caricatures, relative to photographs, are 'superfaithful' carriers of information for facial recognition. Subjects were shown fifteen pictures of people's faces and were then asked to pick those same people out of a set of fifty-four pictures. There were three sets of pictures: caricatures, profile-view photographs, and three-quarter-view photographs. There were nine groups of subjects: for three groups the exposure and test stimuli were in the same medium, for six groups the test stimuli were in one of the media not previously seen. Points were scored for the number of people correctly identified and the number of false positives. Facial recognition within medium was very good, but was seriously disrupted by any medium shift, especially those involving caricatures. It is argued that the superfidelity of caricature may be manifest only when the task involves recognition of actual persons rather than their pictures.
相对于照片而言，漫画是面部识别信息的“超级忠实”载体。向受试者展示了15张人脸图片，然后要求他们从54张图片中挑选出相同的人。共有三组图片：漫画、侧视图照片和四分之三视图照片。共有九组受试者：三组的曝光和测试刺激处于相同媒介，六组的测试刺激处于之前未见过的媒介之一。根据正确识别的人数和误报人数进行计分。同一媒介内的面部识别非常出色，但任何媒介转换都会严重干扰识别，尤其是涉及漫画的转换。有人认为，漫画的超级逼真度可能只有在任务涉及识别真实人物而非其图片时才会显现出来。
