The study examined the effect that auditory information (speaker language/accent:
Japanese or French) had on the processing of visual information (the speaker's race: Asian …

The central aim of the current thesis was to examine how facial expression and racial
identity information affect face processing involving different races, and this was addressed …

Describing a face in words can either hinder or help subsequent face recognition. Here, the
authors examined the relationship between the benefit from verbally describing a series of …

Cognitive understanding of voice recognition has borrowed much from the area of face
processing, both in terms of the theoretical framework within which results are interpreted …

Faces and voices each convey multiple cues enabling us to tell people apart. Research on
face and voice distinctiveness commonly utilizes multidimensional space to represent these …

In many ways, of course, the answer to the question “Are faces special?” is obvious. There is
no doubt that faces are special functionally—that is, faces provide unique information about …

Past research indicates that faces can be more difficult to ignore than other types of stimuli.
Given the important social and biological relevance of race and gender, the present study …

Extensive work in speech perception indicates that given the same speech signal, listeners
behave differently when viewing East Asian faces compared to Caucasian faces. An …

Previous studies have demonstrated a left perceptual bias while looking at faces, due to the
fact that observers mainly use information from the left side of a face (from the observer's …

The own-race bias in memory for faces has been a rich source of empirical work on the
mechanisms of person perception. This effect is thought to arise because the face …