Deficits in cross-race face learning: Insights from eye movements and pupillometry.

Deficits in cross-race face learning: insights from eye movements and pupillometry.

The own-race bias (ORB) is a well-known finding wherein people are better able to recognize and discriminate own-race faces, relative to cross-race faces. In 2 experiments, participants viewed Asian and Caucasian faces, in preparation for recognition memory tests, while their eye movements and pupil diameters were continuously monitored. In Experiment 1 (with Caucasian participants), systematic...

Some effects of alcohol and eye movements on cross-race face learning.

This study examines the impact of acute alcohol intoxication on visual scanning in cross-race face learning. The eye movements of a group of white British participants were recorded as they encoded a series of own-and different-race faces, under alcohol and placebo conditions. Intoxication reduced the rate and extent of visual scanning during face encoding, reorienting the focus of foveal atten...

Eye movements are functional during face learning.

In a free viewing learning condition, participants were allowed to move their eyes naturally as they learned a set of new faces. In a restricted viewing learning condition, participants remained fixated in a single central location as they learned the new faces. Recognition of the learned faces was then tested following the two learning conditions. Eye movements were recorded during the free vi...

Eye Movements in Face Recognition

Differences in eye movements between same and other race face recognition

Eye movements of twelve Caucasian participants were measured whilst they performed a recognition test of same (Caucasian) and other race (Indian) faces. We observed a standard other-race effect, with more items recognised correctly, fewer false alarms, and reduced reaction time to same-race than other-race faces. Additionally, a differential pattern of eye movements between races emerged. Durin...