title: Deficits in cross-race face learning: insights from eye movements and pupillometry.
abstract: 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 differences emerged in both measures as a function of depicted race: While encoding cross-race faces, participants made fewer (and longer) fixations, they preferentially attended to different sets of features, and their pupils were more dilated, all relative to own-race faces. Also, in both measures, a pattern emerged wherein some participants reduced their apparent encoding effort to cross-race faces over trials. In Experiment 2 (with Asian participants), the authors observed the same patterns, although the ORB favored the opposite set of faces. Taken together, the results suggest that the ORB appears during initial perceptual encoding. Relative to own-race face encoding, cross-race encoding requires greater effort, which may reduce vigilance in some participants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85233, USA. goldinger@asu.edu
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Goldinger
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Megan H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Papesh
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention; D015982:Bias; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011601:Psychophysics; D011680:Pupil; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology
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