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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The other-race effect (ORE) describes faster recognition of own-race faces compared to other-race faces.
  • The baby schema effect refers to the enhanced attention and positive affect elicited by infant-like facial features.
  • The interaction between these effects in face perception and recognition remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between the other-race effect and the baby schema effect during face perception and recognition.
  • To examine how ethnicity and age (infant vs. adult) influence neural responses during face processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an old/new recognition task with 384 images of Caucasian and non-Caucasian infant and adult faces.
  • Recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs) during face encoding and memory retrieval.
  • Applied standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (SwLORETA) to analyze neural activation patterns.

Main Results:

  • A significant baby schema effect was observed, with larger N170, anterior N2, and P300 responses to infant faces across ethnicities.
  • The other-race effect was present for adult faces, showing larger N170 and N400 responses to Caucasian compared to non-Caucasian adult faces.
  • Reaction times were faster for Caucasian adult faces than non-Caucasian adult faces, but no ORE was found for infant faces.

Conclusions:

  • The baby schema effect impacts face perception universally, irrespective of ethnicity, highlighting its fundamental role in attention.
  • The other-race effect is specific to adult faces, suggesting distinct neural mechanisms for processing familiar and unfamiliar adult faces versus infant faces.
  • Neural correlates of ORE in adults involve areas related to person perception, prejudice, and theory of mind, while infants' faces capture attention due to innate properties.