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Effects of Caricaturing in Shape or Color on Familiarity Decisions for Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces

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  • Marlena L Itz
  • Stefan R Schweinberger
  • Jürgen M Kaufmann

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Recent evidence suggests that while reflectance information (including color) may be more diagnostic for familiar face recognition, shape may be more diagnostic for unfamiliar face identity processing. Moreover, event-related potential (ERP) findings suggest an earlier onset for neural processing of facial shape compared to reflectance. In the current study, we aimed to explore specifically the roles of facial shape and color in a familiarity decision task using pre-experimentally familiar (famous) and unfamiliar faces that were caricatured either in shape-only, color-only, or both (full; shape + color) by 15%, 30%, or 45%. We recorded accuracies, mean reaction times, and face-sensitive ERPs. Performance data revealed that shape caricaturing facilitated identity processing for unfamiliar faces only. In the ERP data, such effects of shape caricaturing emerged earlier than those of color caricaturing. Unsurprisingly, ERP effects were accentuated for larger levels of caricaturing. Overall, our findings corroborate the importance of shape for identity processing of unfamiliar faces and demonstrate an earlier onset of neural processing for facial shape compared to color.

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  • Marlena L Itz & Stefan R Schweinberger & Jürgen M Kaufmann, 2016. "Effects of Caricaturing in Shape or Color on Familiarity Decisions for Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(2), pages 1-19, February.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149796
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