On the other side of the fence: effects of social categorization and spatial grouping on memory and attention for own-race and other-race faces.

The term "own-race bias" refers to the phenomenon that humans are typically better at recognizing faces from their own than a different race. The perceptual expertise account assumes that our face perception system has adapted to the faces we are typically exposed to, equipping it poorly f...

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Main Authors: Nadine Kloth, Susannah E Shields, Gillian Rhodes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25180902/?tool=EBI