scholarly journals Two Factors in Face Recognition: Whether You Know the Person’s Face and Whether You Share the Person’s Race

Perception ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 030100662110140
Author(s):  
Xingchen Zhou ◽  
A. M. Burton ◽  
Rob Jenkins

One of the best-known phenomena in face recognition is the other-race effect, the observation that own-race faces are better remembered than other-race faces. However, previous studies have not put the magnitude of other-race effect in the context of other influences on face recognition. Here, we compared the effects of (a) a race manipulation (own-race/other-race face) and (b) a familiarity manipulation (familiar/unfamiliar face) in a 2 × 2 factorial design. We found that the familiarity effect was several times larger than the race effect in all performance measures. However, participants expected race to have a larger effect on others than it actually did. Face recognition accuracy depends much more on whether you know the person’s face than whether you share the same race.

Author(s):  
Janina Esins ◽  
Johannes Schultz ◽  
Claudia Stemper ◽  
Ingo Kennerknecht ◽  
Christian Wallraven ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Janina Esins ◽  
Johannes Schultz ◽  
Christian Wallraven ◽  
Isabelle Bülthoff

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 722-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mintao Zhao ◽  
Isabelle Bülthoff

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p6136 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 1199-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liezhong Ge ◽  
Hongchuan Zhang ◽  
Zhe Wang ◽  
Paul C Quinn ◽  
Olivier Pascalis ◽  
...  

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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 1712-1721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Wallis ◽  
Ottmar V. Lipp ◽  
Eric J. Vanman

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p6110 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Rhodes ◽  
Vance Locke ◽  
Louise Ewing ◽  
Emma Evangelista

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Slak

32 Ss were given a serial learning task involving either quinary or decimal numbers. The reading of items was silent for one half and aloud for the other half of the Ss in a 2 × 2 factorial design. As evidenced by trials-to-criterion, quinary numbers were significantly more difficult to learn. Vocalization resulted in slower learning, but the difference was not significant. There was no interaction between the two factors. Additional analysis revealed a strong difference in the serial position curve between the two vocalization conditions, the aloud condition resulting in a stronger recency and weaker primacy effect. In learning numerically coded information, the decimal code was interpreted as superior to the quinary code because of higher information per item and lower intralist similarity.


1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice J. O’toole ◽  
Kenneth A. Deffenbacher ◽  
Dominique Valentin ◽  
Herve Abdi

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mintao Zhao ◽  
William G. Hayward ◽  
Isabelle Bülthoff

2008 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten J. Hancock ◽  
Gillian Rhodes

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