Are we face experts?

AW Young, AM Burton - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to
become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has …

A critical period for faces: Other-race face recognition is improved by childhood but not adult social contact

E McKone, L Wan, M Pidcock, K Crookes… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Poor recognition of other-race faces is ubiquitous around the world. We resolve a
longstanding contradiction in the literature concerning whether interracial social contact …

Three‐level meta‐analysis of the other‐race bias in facial identification

J Lee, SD Penrod - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current research conducted a three‐level meta‐analysis with a total of 159 journal
articles on the other‐race bias in facial identification, which had been published between …

Why the other‐race effect matters: Poor recognition of other‐race faces impacts everyday social interactions

E McKone, A Dawel, RA Robbins… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What happens to everyday social interactions when other‐race recognition fails? Here, we
provide the first formal investigation of this question. We gave East Asian international …

Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects

SC Tüttenberg, H Wiese - Biological Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are better at recognising faces from their own vs. another ethnic background. Socio-
cognitive theories of this own-race bias (ORB) propose that reduced recognition of other …

The effect of implicit racial bias on recognition of other-race faces

T Trawiński, A Aslanian, OS Cheung - Cognitive Research: Principles and …, 2021 - Springer
Previous research has established a possible link between recognition performance,
individuation experience, and implicit racial bias of other-race faces. However, it remains …

Closing a conceptual gap in race perception research: A functional integration of the other-race face recognition and “who said what?” paradigms.

F Flade, R Imhoff - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
White people confuse Black faces more than their own-race faces. This is an example of the
other-race effect, commonly measured by the other-race face recognition task. Like this task …

The combined influence of the own-age,-gender, and-ethnicity biases on face recognition

PBL Mukudi, PJ Hills - Acta psychologica, 2019 - Elsevier
Whether the own-group (own-ethnicity, own-gender, and own-age) biases in face
recognition are based on the same mechanism and whether their effects are additive or not …

Face perception foundations for pattern recognition algorithms

F Marcolin, E Vezzetti, MG Monaci - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
Pattern recognition system developers have looked in multiple directions over the years and
designed a broad spectrum of methodologies for face identification and verification, both in …

Covariation in the recognition of own-race and other-race faces argues against the role of group bias in the other race effect

A Wang, C Laming, TJ Andrews - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
A dominant theory of the other race effect (ORE) is that group-bias causes us to process own-
race and other-race faces using different cognitive processes. To test this theory, we …