Eye-tracking the own-race bias in face recognition: Revealing the perceptual and socio-cognitive mechanisms
Authors: Hills, P.J. and Pake, J.M.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 129
Issue: 3
Pages: 586-597
eISSN: 1873-7838
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.012
Abstract:Own-race faces are recognised more accurately than other-race faces and may even be viewed differently as measured by an eye-tracker (Goldinger, Papesh, & He, 2009). Alternatively, observer race might direct eye-movements (Blais, Jack, Scheepers, Fiset, & Caldara, 2008). Observer differences in eye-movements are likely to be based on experience of the physiognomic characteristics that are differentially discriminating for Black and White faces. Two experiments are reported that employed standard old/new recognition paradigms in which Black and White observers viewed Black and White faces with their eye-movements recorded. Experiment 1 showed that there were observer race differences in terms of the features scanned but observers employed the same strategy across different types of faces. Experiment 2 demonstrated that other-race faces could be recognised more accurately if participants had their first fixation directed to more diagnostic features using fixation crosses. These results are entirely consistent with those presented by Blais et al. (2008) and with the perceptual interpretation that the own-race bias is due to inappropriate attention allocated to the facial features (Hills & Lewis, 2006, 2011). © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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Eye-tracking the own-race bias in face recognition: revealing the perceptual and socio-cognitive mechanisms.
Authors: Hills, P.J. and Pake, J.M.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 129
Issue: 3
Pages: 586-597
eISSN: 1873-7838
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.012
Abstract:Own-race faces are recognised more accurately than other-race faces and may even be viewed differently as measured by an eye-tracker (Goldinger, Papesh, & He, 2009). Alternatively, observer race might direct eye-movements (Blais, Jack, Scheepers, Fiset, & Caldara, 2008). Observer differences in eye-movements are likely to be based on experience of the physiognomic characteristics that are differentially discriminating for Black and White faces. Two experiments are reported that employed standard old/new recognition paradigms in which Black and White observers viewed Black and White faces with their eye-movements recorded. Experiment 1 showed that there were observer race differences in terms of the features scanned but observers employed the same strategy across different types of faces. Experiment 2 demonstrated that other-race faces could be recognised more accurately if participants had their first fixation directed to more diagnostic features using fixation crosses. These results are entirely consistent with those presented by Blais et al. (2008) and with the perceptual interpretation that the own-race bias is due to inappropriate attention allocated to the facial features (Hills & Lewis, 2006, 2011).
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Eye-tracking the own-race bias in face recognition: Revealing the perceptual and socio-cognitive mechanisms
Authors: Hills, P.J. and Pake, J.M.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 129
Pages: 586-597
Publisher: Elsevier
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Eye-tracking the own-race bias in face recognition: revealing the perceptual and socio-cognitive mechanisms.
Authors: Hills, P.J. and Pake, J.M.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 129
Issue: 3
Pages: 586-597
eISSN: 1873-7838
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.012
Abstract:Own-race faces are recognised more accurately than other-race faces and may even be viewed differently as measured by an eye-tracker (Goldinger, Papesh, & He, 2009). Alternatively, observer race might direct eye-movements (Blais, Jack, Scheepers, Fiset, & Caldara, 2008). Observer differences in eye-movements are likely to be based on experience of the physiognomic characteristics that are differentially discriminating for Black and White faces. Two experiments are reported that employed standard old/new recognition paradigms in which Black and White observers viewed Black and White faces with their eye-movements recorded. Experiment 1 showed that there were observer race differences in terms of the features scanned but observers employed the same strategy across different types of faces. Experiment 2 demonstrated that other-race faces could be recognised more accurately if participants had their first fixation directed to more diagnostic features using fixation crosses. These results are entirely consistent with those presented by Blais et al. (2008) and with the perceptual interpretation that the own-race bias is due to inappropriate attention allocated to the facial features (Hills & Lewis, 2006, 2011).
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