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Own-race faces capture attention faster than other-race faces: evidence from response time and the N2pc
Zhou, Guomei Cheng, Zhijie Yue, Zhenzhu Tredoux, Colin He, Jibo Wang, Ling
Zhou, Guomei
Cheng, Zhijie
Yue, Zhenzhu
Tredoux, Colin
He, Jibo
Wang, Ling
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2015-06-04
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Visual-search,Recognition,Memory,Perception,Component,Account,Gender,Brain,Bias,Categorization
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Zhou, Guomei; Cheng, Zhijie; Yue, Zhenzhu; Tredoux, Colin; He, Jibo; Wang, Ling. 2015. Own-race faces capture attention faster than other-race faces: evidence from response time and the N2pc. PLOS ONE, vol. 10:no. 6
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Studies have shown that people are better at recognizing human faces from their own-race than from other-races, an effect often termed the Own-Race Advantage. The current study investigates whether there is an Own-Race Advantage in attention and its neural correlates. Participants were asked to search for a human face among animal faces. Experiment 1 showed a classic Own-Race Advantage in response time both for Chinese and Black South African participants. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), Experiment 2 showed a similar Own-Race Advantage in response time for both upright faces and inverted faces. Moreover, the latency of N2pc for own-race faces was earlier than that for other-race faces. These results suggested that own-race faces capture attention more efficiently than other-race faces.
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Open Access peer reviewed research article.
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Public Library of Science
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PLoS ONE
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1932-6203