The other-race effect: Holistic coding differences and beyond

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1224-1247

  Hayward, William G ^a,b   Crookes, Kate ^b   Rhodes, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Featural processing; Holistic processing; Other race effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CODING; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84892815823     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.824530     Document Type: Article

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