title: The impact of childhood experience on amygdala response to perceptually familiar black and white faces.
abstract: Given the well-documented involvement of the amygdala in race perception, the current study aimed to investigate how interracial contact during childhood shapes amygdala response to racial outgroup members in adulthood. Of particular interest was the impact of childhood experience on amygdala response to familiar, compared with novel, Black faces. Controlling for a number of well-established individual difference measures related to interracial attitudes, the results reveal that perceivers with greater childhood exposure to racial outgroup members display greater relative reduction in amygdala response to familiar Black faces. The implications of such findings are discussed in the context of previous investigations into the neural substrates of race perception and in consideration of potential mechanisms by which childhood experience may shape race perception.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago.
authors.forename: Jasmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cloutier
authors.forename: Tianyi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Correll
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000679:Amygdala / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001290:Attitude; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007206:Individuality; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011822:Race Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen