So, we’ve just reached our 100th member, welcome! That many introductions might be a bit much. I’m not sure off hand how to do a searchable site, but it can’t be that hard; google probably has something.
Meanwhile, I’ve a paper just accepted in Perception:
Adaptation may cause some of the face caricature effect
One of the ways to demonstrate a caricature preference is to ask participants to adjust a face image over a range from anti-caricature to caricature until it shows the best likeness to a specific individual. Since facial adaptation, whereby exposure to
a face influences subsequent perception of faces, is rapid, it is possible that adaptation promotes the selection of a caricatured image. We tested whether giving participants a reference average face image, to counteract any adaptation, would reduce the degree
of caricature selected for famous faces. Results confirmed a significant decrease, but even without an average, participants chose an anti-caricatured image. These data suggest a role for adaptation in generating caricature preferences while also suggesting
such preferences are not inevitable.
Following from Andy’s kind reference to the Riby & Hancock paper, if anyone can’t see Neuropsychologia, the paper is also in our repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/468
Peter