title: Two faces of the other-race effect: recognition and categorisation of Caucasian and Chinese faces.
abstract: The other-race effect is a collection of phenomena whereby faces of one's own race are processed differently from those of other races. Previous studies have revealed a paradoxical mirror pattern of an own-race advantage in face recognition and an other-race advantage in race-based categorisation. With a well-controlled design, we compared recognition and categorisation of own-race and other-race faces in both Caucasian and Chinese participants. Compared with own-race faces, other-race faces were less accurately and more slowly recognised, whereas they were more rapidly categorised by race. The mirror pattern was confirmed by a unique negative correlation between the two effects in terms of reaction time with a hierarchical regression analysis. This finding suggests an antagonistic interaction between the processing of face identity and that of face category, and a common underlying processing mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, PR China.
authors.forename: Liezhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Hongchuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pascalis
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Slater
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult