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 …

Neural systems and hormones mediating attraction to infant and child faces

L Luo, X Ma, X Zheng, W Zhao, L Xu, B Becker… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We find infant faces highly attractive as a result of specific features which Konrad Lorenz
termed “Kindchenschema” or “baby schema,” and this is considered to be an important …

How does a newly encountered face become familiar? The effect of within-person variability on adults' and children's perception of identity

KA Baker, S Laurence, CJ Mondloch - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Adults and children aged 6 years and older easily recognize multiple images of a familiar
face, but often perceive two images of an unfamiliar face as belonging to different identities …

Neural timing of the other‐race effect across the lifespan: A review

L Serafini, F Pesciarelli - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Face race influences the way we process faces, so that faces of a different ethnic group are
processed for identity less efficiently than faces of one's ethnic group‐a phenomenon known …

Infant attention to same-and other-race faces

A Singarajah, J Chanley, Y Gutierrez, Y Cordon… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
We recorded visual attention to same-and other-race faces in Hispanic and White 11-month-
old infants, an age at which face processing is presumably biased by an own-race …

Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is a cross‐cultural phenomenon in infancy: A behavioral and near‐infrared spectroscopy study with Japanese infants

M Kobayashi, V Macchi Cassia… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent data showed that, in Caucasian infants, perceptual narrowing occurs for own‐race
adult faces between 3 and 9 months of age, possibly as a consequence of the extensive …

[HTML][HTML] Memory consolidation of socially relevant stimuli during sleep in healthy children and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional …

A Prehn-Kristensen, I Molzow, A Förster… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) display deficits in sleep-
dependent memory consolidation, and being comorbid with oppositional defiant disorder …

Socio‐cognitive, expertise‐based and appearance‐based accounts of the other‐'race'effect in face perception: A label‐based systematic review of neuroimaging …

L Ficco, VI Müller, JM Kaufmann… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two competing theories explain the other‐'race'effect (ORE) either by greater perceptual
expertise to same‐'race'(SR) faces or by social categorization of other‐'race'(OR) faces at …

[HTML][HTML] Event-related potential correlates of implicit processing of own-and other-race faces in children

L Serafini, I Leo, F Pesciarelli - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Human adults typically experience difficulties in recognizing and discriminating individual
faces belonging to racial groups other than their own. The origin of this “other-race” effect is …

A developmental investigation of the other-race categorization advantage in a multiracial population: Contrasting social categorization and perceptual expertise …

PJ Woo, PC Quinn, D Méary, K Lee… - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Most prior studies of the other-race categorization advantage have been conducted in
predominantly monoracial societies. This limitation has left open the question of whether …