Own-Race Faces Capture Attention Faster than Other-Race Faces: Evidence from Response Time and the N2pc |
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| Authors: | Guomei Zhou Zhijie Cheng Zhenzhu Yue Colin Tredoux Jibo He Ling Wang |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.; 2. Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.; 3. Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America.; 4. Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.; Bournemouth University, UNITED KINGDOM, |
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| Abstract: | Studies have shown that people are better at recognizing human faces from their own-race than from other-races, an effect often termed the Own-Race Advantage. The current study investigates whether there is an Own-Race Advantage in attention and its neural correlates. Participants were asked to search for a human face among animal faces. Experiment 1 showed a classic Own-Race Advantage in response time both for Chinese and Black South African participants. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), Experiment 2 showed a similar Own-Race Advantage in response time for both upright faces and inverted faces. Moreover, the latency of N2pc for own-race faces was earlier than that for other-race faces. These results suggested that own-race faces capture attention more efficiently than other-race faces. |
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