A Robust Method of Measuring Other-Race and Other-Ethnicity Effects: The Cambridge Face Memory Test Format

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  McKone, Elinor ^a,b   Stokes, Sacha ^a   Liu, Jia ^c   Cohan, Sarah ^d   Fiorentini, Chiara ^a,b   Pidcock, Madeleine ^a   Yovel, Galit ^e   Broughton, Mary ^a   Pelleg, Michel ^e  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSIOGNOMY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868152471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047956     Document Type: Article

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