APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

How Does a Newly Encountered Face Become Familiar: The Role of Experience with Own- Vs. Other-Race Faces.

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • Kristen Baker
    Brock University
  • Xiaomei Zhou
    Brock University
  • Claire Matthews
    Brock University
  • Olha Wloch
    Brock University
  • Catherine Mondloch
    Brock University

Abstract

We examined the role of experience in face learning by exposing participants to varying degrees of within-person variability in the appearance of own- and other-race faces and measuring recognition of novel images. More variability was required for other-race faces— a pattern comparable to that observed in children compared to adults.

Perception

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