Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing?
The other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested th...
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| description | The other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a working memory maintenance mechanism called attentional refreshing mediates the other-race effect and that faces from one’s own ethnicity are refreshed more efficiently than faces from other ethnicities. In two experiments, face ethnicity was orthogonally manipulated with cognitive load of a concurrent processing task in a complex-span paradigm (Exp. 1) and with the memory load in a Brown-Peterson paradigm (Exp. 2). Both cognitive and memory load effects are indices of the functioning of attentional refreshing. Testing Caucasian young adults, Caucasian and East-Asian faces were contrasted. Results from both experiments were congruent and against our initial hypothesis. The other-race effect in working memory does not appear to be supported by attentional refreshing. Furthermore, the results are congruent with the idea that faces as a whole are not maintained in working memory via attentional refreshing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc7b673a81dc49f09d1784bec1734b082023-03-17T13:00:03ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202023-02-016110.5334/joc.263275Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing?Philippe Schneider0Evie Vergauwe1Valerie Camos2Université de FribourgUniversité de GenèveUniversité de FribourgThe other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a working memory maintenance mechanism called attentional refreshing mediates the other-race effect and that faces from one’s own ethnicity are refreshed more efficiently than faces from other ethnicities. In two experiments, face ethnicity was orthogonally manipulated with cognitive load of a concurrent processing task in a complex-span paradigm (Exp. 1) and with the memory load in a Brown-Peterson paradigm (Exp. 2). Both cognitive and memory load effects are indices of the functioning of attentional refreshing. Testing Caucasian young adults, Caucasian and East-Asian faces were contrasted. Results from both experiments were congruent and against our initial hypothesis. The other-race effect in working memory does not appear to be supported by attentional refreshing. Furthermore, the results are congruent with the idea that faces as a whole are not maintained in working memory via attentional refreshing.https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/263other-race effectattentional refreshingfamiliarityface processingworking memorymaintenance |
| spellingShingle | Philippe Schneider Evie Vergauwe Valerie Camos Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? Journal of Cognition other-race effect attentional refreshing familiarity face processing working memory maintenance |
| title | Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? |
| title_full | Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? |
| title_fullStr | Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? |
| title_short | Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? |
| title_sort | is the other race effect in working memory due to attentional refreshing |
| topic | other-race effect attentional refreshing familiarity face processing working memory maintenance |
| url | https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/263 |
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