Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage

Minimizing Skin Color Differences Does Not Eliminate the Own-Race Recognition Advantage in Infants.

An abundance of experience with own-race faces and limited to no experience with other-race faces has been associated with better recognition memory for own-race faces in infants, children, and adults. This study investigated the developmental origins of this other-race effect (ORE) by examining the role of a salient perceptual property of faces-that of skin color. Six- and 9-month-olds' recogn...

An encoding advantage for own-race versus other-race faces.

Studies have shown that individuals are better able to recognise the faces of people from their own race than the faces of people from other races. Although the so-called own-race effect has been generally regarded as an advantage in recognition memory, differences in the processing of the own-race versus other-race faces might also be found at the earlier stages of perceptual encoding. In this...

Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces.

Adults are sensitive to the physical differences that define ethnic groups. However, the age at which we become sensitive to ethnic differences is currently unclear. Our study aimed to clarify this by testing newborns and young infants for sensitivity to ethnicity using a visual preference (VP) paradigm. While newborn infants demonstrated no spontaneous preference for faces from either their ow...

Assessing the Boundary Conditions of the Own-Age and Own-Race Perceptual Bias for Faces

Individual Differences in Holistic Processing Predict the Own-Race Advantage in Recognition Memory

Individuals are consistently better at recognizing own-race faces compared to other-race faces (other-race effect, ORE). One popular hypothesis is that this recognition memory ORE is caused by differential own- and other-race holistic processing, the simultaneous integration of part and configural face information into a coherent whole. Holistic processing may create a more rich, detailed memor...