The role of age and ethnic group in face recognition memory: ERP evidence from a combined own-age and own-race bias study

Wiese, Holger

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.10.002

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“…However, we replicated the results in Experiment 1 using a different face set presented in color (Experiment 2A). Moreover, Wiese (2012) recently reported the same recognition pattern in young participants; that is, young participants recognized young White faces better than White old faces and showed an other-race effect exclusively for young faces. This additional report, using a different face set and participant sample, supports the generality of the findings described above.…”

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Face age and sex modulate the other-race effect in face recognition

Wallis

Lipp

Vanman

2012

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Faces convey a variety of socially relevant cues that have been shown to affect recognition, such as age, sex, and race, but few studies have examined the interactive effect of these cues. White participants of two distinct age groups were presented with faces that differed in race, age, and sex in a face recognition paradigm. Replicating the other-race effect, young participants recognized young own-race faces better than young other-race faces. However, recognition performance did not differ across old faces of different races (Experiments 1, 2A). In addition, participants showed an other-age effect, recognizing White young faces better than White old faces. Sex affected recognition performance only when age was not varied (Experiment 2B). Overall, older participants showed a similar recognition pattern (Experiment 3) as young participants, displaying an other-race effect for young, but not old, faces. However, they recognized young and old White faces on a similar level. These findings indicate that face cues interact to affect recognition performance such that age and sex information reliably modulate the effect of race cues. These results extend accounts of face recognition that explain recognition biases (such as the other-race effect) as a function of dichotomous ingroup/outgroup categorization, in that outgroup characteristics are not simply additive but interactively determine recognition performance.

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Face age and sex modulate the other-race effect in face recognition

Wallis

Lipp

Vanman

2012

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Numerous studies have replicated these initial ERP effects as a function of target race (e.g., Correll, Urland, & Ito, 2006;Dickter & Bartholow, 2007;Dickter & Gyuvorski, 2012;Ito, Thompson, & Cacioppo, 2004;Ito & Tomelleri, 2013;Ito & Urland, 2005;James, Johnstone, & Hayward, 2001;Kubota & Ito, 2007;Walker, Silvert, Hewstone, & Nobre, 2008;Wiese, 2012;Willadsen-Jensen & Ito, 2006, gender (Ito & Urland, 2005;Mouchetant-Rostaing, Giard, Bentin, Aguera, & Pernier, 2000), and age (Mouchetant-Rostaing & Giard, 2003;Weise & Schweinberger, 2008). Taken together, these findings provide initial evidence that social category information of various forms impacts perceptions of faces rapidly and in a taskindependent fashion.…”

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Us versus them: Understanding the process of race perception with event-related brain potentials

Ito

Senholzi

2013

Visual Cognition

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“…Some previous studies have revealed increased N170 amplitudes for other-race than for own-race faces (Caharel et al, 2011;Gajewski, Schlegel, & Stoerig, 2008;Herrmann et al, 2007;Stahl, Wiese, & Schweinberger, 2008;Walker, Silvert, Hewstone, & Nobre, 2007;Wiese, 2012;Wiese, Kaufmann, & Schweinberger, 2014). Since own-race and own-age effects on ERPs are partly comparable (Ebner, He, Fichtenholtz, McCarthy, & Johnson, 2011;Wiese, Schweinberger, & Hansen, 2008), this finding might extend to own-age effects.…”

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ERP evidence for own-age effects on late stages of processing sad faces

Fölster

Werheid

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Faces convey important information on interaction partners, such as their emotional state and age. Faces of the same age are, according to recent research, preferentially processed. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the neural processes underlying this own-age effect are influenced by the emotional expression of the face, and to explore possible explanations such as the frequency or quality of contact to own-age versus other-age groups. Event-related potentials were recorded while 19 younger (18-30 years) and 19 older (64-86 years) observers watched younger and older sad and happy faces. Sad but not happy faces elicited higher late positive potential amplitudes for own-age than for other-age faces. This own-age effect was significant for older, but not for younger, observers, and correlated with the quality of contact with the own-age versus the other-age group. This pattern suggests that sad own-age faces are motivationally more relevant.Keywords Own-age effect . Facial expression . Event-related potentials . Late positive potential . Emotion Faces convey crucial information for social interactions: They signal the emotional state of our interaction partners, and also provide important social information on their age, sex, and race. Recent research has revealed preferential processing of faces belonging to one's same age group (own-age faces).

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The role of age and ethnic group in face recognition memory: ERP evidence from a combined own-age and own-race bias study

Cited by 97 publications

References 64 publications

Face age and sex modulate the other-race effect in face recognition

Face age and sex modulate the other-race effect in face recognition

Us versus them: Understanding the process of race perception with event-related brain potentials

ERP evidence for own-age effects on late stages of processing sad faces

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