The other face of the other-race effect: An fMRI investigation of the other-race face categorization advantage

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3739-3749

  Feng, Lu ^a   Liu, Jiangang ^b   Wang, Zhe ^c   Li, Jun ^d   Li, Ling ^b   Ge, Liezhong ^c   Tian, Jie ^a,d   Lee, Kang ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical neural resources; Face categorization; Face processing; Face recognition; FMRI; Fusiform face area; Occipital face area; Other race effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RACE DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755186926     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.031     Document Type: Article

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