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Two faces of the other-race effect: recognition and categorisation of Caucasian and Chinese faces.

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Ge, Liezhong | Zhang, Hongchuan | Wang, Zhe | Quinn, Paul C | Pascalis, Olivier | Kelly, David | Slater, Alan | Tian, Jie | Lee, Kang

Edité par CCSD ; SAGE Publications -

International audience. The other-race effect is a collection of phenomena whereby faces of one's own race are processed differently from those of other races. Previous studies have revealed a paradoxical mirror pattern of an own-race advantage in face recognition and an other-race advantage in race-based categorisation. With a well-controlled design, we compared recognition and categorisation of own-race and other-race faces in both Caucasian and Chinese participants. Compared with own-race faces, other-race faces were less accurately and more slowly recognised, whereas they were more rapidly categorised by race. The mirror pattern was confirmed by a unique negative correlation between the two effects in terms of reaction time with a hierarchical regression analysis. This finding suggests an antagonistic interaction between the processing of face identity and that of face category, and a common underlying processing mechanism.

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