title: Own-race faces capture attention faster than other-race faces: evidence from response time and the N2pc.
abstract: Studies have shown that people are better at recognizing human faces from their own-race than from other-races, an effect often termed the Own-Race Advantage. The current study investigates whether there is an Own-Race Advantage in attention and its neural correlates. Participants were asked to search for a human face among animal faces. Experiment 1 showed a classic Own-Race Advantage in response time both for Chinese and Black South African participants. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), Experiment 2 showed a similar Own-Race Advantage in response time for both upright faces and inverted faces. Moreover, the latency of N2pc for own-race faces was earlier than that for other-race faces. These results suggested that own-race faces capture attention more efficiently than other-race faces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
authors.forename: Guomei
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
authors.forename: Zhijie
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
authors.forename: Zhenzhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tredoux
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jibo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000818:Animals; D044466:Asian People; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002415:Cats; D004285:Dogs; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*