Cognitive control, attention, and the other race effect in memory.

People are better at remembering faces from their own race than other races-a phenomenon with significant societal implications. This Other Race Effect (ORE) in memory could arise from different attentional allocation to, and cognitive control over, same- and other-race faces during encoding. Deeper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thackery I Brown, Melina R Uncapher, Tiffany E Chow, Jennifer L Eberhardt, Anthony D Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5345842?pdf=render