Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1215-1241

  Frowd, Charlie D ^a   Skelton, Faye ^a   Atherton, Chris ^a   Pitchford, Melanie ^b   Bruce, Vicki ^c   Atkins, Rebecca ^a   Gannon, Carol ^a   Ross, David ^d,f   Young, Fern ^d   Nelson, Laura ^a   Hepton, Gemma ^a   McIntyre, Alex H ^e   Hancock, Peter J B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caricature; Face space; Facial composite; Memory; Witness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873129373     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.743936     Document Type: Article

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