Is race erased? decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 750-755

  Ratner, Kyle G ^a   Kaul, Christian ^a   Van Bavel, Jay J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face network; Fmri; Fusiform gyrus; Multivariate pattern analysis; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; COLOR; FACE; FACE NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RACE; SKIN; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

FACE NETWORK; FMRI; FUSIFORM GYRUS; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; RACE;

ADULT; COLOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885781156     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss063     Document Type: Article

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