Absence of a hemispheric superiority in the recognition of European and Asian faces.
The present study was designed to examine whether there is a difference in hemispheric superiority in the recognition of European and Asian faces. A visual hemifield-presentation technique involving monocular testing was employed. Ten European subjects were presented a recognition task involving European faces and 10 other European subjects a similar task involving Asian faces. The data indicated no hemispheric superiority in either case; however, subjects made significantly more errors in recognising Asian faces than European faces in both visual hemifields.
D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time