An experimental study on the effect of repeated exposure of facial caricature on memory representation of a model’s face

Abstract

Why does human can identify a facial caricature with its model’s face? We hypothesize that a facial caricature has an effect on a person’s memory representation of the model’s face to get closer into the facial caricature itself, which causes a person to evoke the feeling of similarity between the model’s face and its facial caricature. In this point, we conducted the experiment to verify whether the continuous exposure of a facial caricature changes participants’ memory representation and whether the exposure also evokes participants’ feeling of similarity between them.