Development of the other-race effect during infancy: Evidence toward universality?

Journal of Child Psychology …, 2004

PloS one, 2011

Experience plays a crucial role in the development of the face processing system. At 6 months of age infants can discriminate individual faces from their own and other races. By 9 months of age this ability to process other-race faces is typically lost, due to minimal experience with other-race faces, and vast exposure to own-race faces, for which infants come to manifest expertise [1]. This is known as the Other Race Effect. In the current study, we demonstrate that exposing Caucasian infants to Chinese faces through perceptual training via picture books for a total of one hour between 6 and 9 months allows Caucasian infants to maintain the ability to discriminate Chinese faces at 9 months of age. The development of the processing of face race can be modified by training, highlighting the importance of early experience in shaping the face representation.

Infancy, 2007

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016

Psychological Science, 2007

Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2009

The other-race effect (ORE) is the tendency of racial information to disrupt the processing of faces of other races. In effect, adults tend to distinguish between own-race faces (ie, faces in their own racial category) more easily than between other-race faces (ie, faces that are not in their ...

2000

ABSTRACT—Experience plays a crucial role in the devel- opment of face processing. In the study reported here, we investigated how,faces observed,within the visual envi- ronment,affect the development,of the face-processing system during the 1st year of life. We assessed 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Caucasian,infants’ ability to discriminate faces within their own racial group and within three other- race groups (African, Middle

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011

Fixation duration for same-race (i.e., Asian) and other-race (i.e., Caucasian) female faces by Asian infant participants between 4 and 9 months of age was investigated with an eye-tracking procedure. The age range tested corresponded with prior reports of processing differences between same- and other-race faces observed in behavioral looking time studies, with preference for same-race faces apparent at 3 months of age and recognition memory differences in favor of same-race faces emerging between 3 and 9 months of age. The eye-tracking results revealed both similarity and difference in infants’ processing of own- and other-race faces. There was no overall fixation time difference between same race and other race for the whole face stimuli. In addition, although fixation time was greater for the upper half of the face than for the lower half of the face and trended higher on the right side of the face than on the left side of the face, face race did not impact these effects. However, over the age range tested, there was a gradual decrement in fixation time on the internal features of other-race faces and a maintenance of fixation time on the internal features of same-race faces. Moreover, the decrement in fixation time for the internal features of other-race faces was most prominent on the nose. The findings suggest that (a) same-race preferences may be more readily evidenced in paired comparison testing formats, (b) the behavioral decline in recognition memory for other-race faces corresponds in timing with a decline in fixation on the internal features of other-race faces, and (c) the center of the face (i.e., the nose) is a differential region for processing same- versus other-race faces by Asian infants.

Congreso Internacional "El reinado de Carlos II y la figura del rey (1679-1700)", 2024

De lo espiritual en las artes, 1989

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