Superportraits Caricatures and Recognition By: Gillian Rhodes Publisher: Psychology Press Print ISBN: 9781138877078, 1138877077 eText ISBN: 9781135472375, 1135472378 Edition: 1st Pages: 184 Copyright year: 1997 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.18 USD SKU 9781135472375R90 As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of being more like the face than the face itself. How can we recognize such distorted images? Do caricatures derive their power from some special property of a face recognition system or from some more general property of recognition systems? What kind of mental representations and recognition processes make caricatures so effective? What can the power of caricatures tell us about recognition? In Download ebook: https://ouo.io/u2ZsFD
