Minimizing skin color differences does not eliminate the own-race recognition advantage in infants

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 640-654

  Anzures, Gizelle ^a   Pascalis, Olivier ^b   Quinn, Paul C ^c   Slater, Alan M ^d   Lee, Kang ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTHER RACE EFFECT; RACISM; RECOGNITION; SKIN COLOR; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 80053572389     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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