An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles
We examined whether Asian individuals would show differential sensitivity to configural vs. featural changes to own- and other-race faces and whether such sensitivity would depend on whether the changes occurred in the upper vs. lower regions of the faces. We systematically varied the size of key fa...
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| author | Zhe eWang Paul C. Quinn James W. Tanaka Xiaoyang eYu Yu-Hao P. Sun Yu-Hao P. Sun Jiangang eLiu Olivier ePascalis Liezhong eGe Kang eLee |
| author_facet | Zhe eWang Paul C. Quinn James W. Tanaka Xiaoyang eYu Yu-Hao P. Sun Yu-Hao P. Sun Jiangang eLiu Olivier ePascalis Liezhong eGe Kang eLee |
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| description | We examined whether Asian individuals would show differential sensitivity to configural vs. featural changes to own- and other-race faces and whether such sensitivity would depend on whether the changes occurred in the upper vs. lower regions of the faces. We systematically varied the size of key facial features (eyes and mouth) of own-race Asian faces and other-race Caucasian faces, and the configuration (spacing) between the eyes and between the nose and mouth of the two types of faces. Results revealed that the other-race effect (ORE) is more pronounced when featural and configural spacing changes are in the upper region than in the lower region of the face. These findings reveal that information from the upper vs. lower region of the face contributes differentially to the ORE in face processing, and that processing of face race is influenced more by information location (i.e., upper vs. lower) than by information type (i.e., configural vs. featural). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98cc5ef3af9d403181fcc527c3862bcb2022-12-22T03:07:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-05-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00559119687An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different RolesZhe eWang0Paul C. Quinn1James W. Tanaka2Xiaoyang eYu3Yu-Hao P. Sun4Yu-Hao P. Sun5Jiangang eLiu6Olivier ePascalis7Liezhong eGe8Kang eLee9Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityUniversity of DelawareUniversity of VictoriaZhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityZhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityUniversity of TorontoBeijing Jiaotong UniversityUniversité Grenoble AlpesZhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityUniversity of TorontoWe examined whether Asian individuals would show differential sensitivity to configural vs. featural changes to own- and other-race faces and whether such sensitivity would depend on whether the changes occurred in the upper vs. lower regions of the faces. We systematically varied the size of key facial features (eyes and mouth) of own-race Asian faces and other-race Caucasian faces, and the configuration (spacing) between the eyes and between the nose and mouth of the two types of faces. Results revealed that the other-race effect (ORE) is more pronounced when featural and configural spacing changes are in the upper region than in the lower region of the face. These findings reveal that information from the upper vs. lower region of the face contributes differentially to the ORE in face processing, and that processing of face race is influenced more by information location (i.e., upper vs. lower) than by information type (i.e., configural vs. featural).http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00559/fullface processingface recognitionother-race effectconfigural informationFace Dimensions Testfeatural information |
| spellingShingle | Zhe eWang Paul C. Quinn James W. Tanaka Xiaoyang eYu Yu-Hao P. Sun Yu-Hao P. Sun Jiangang eLiu Olivier ePascalis Liezhong eGe Kang eLee An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles Frontiers in Psychology face processing face recognition other-race effect configural information Face Dimensions Test featural information |
| title | An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles |
| title_full | An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles |
| title_fullStr | An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles |
| title_short | An Other-Race Effect for Configural and Featural Processing of Faces: Upper and Lower Face Regions Play Different Roles |
| title_sort | other race effect for configural and featural processing of faces upper and lower face regions play different roles |
| topic | face processing face recognition other-race effect configural information Face Dimensions Test featural information |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00559/full |
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