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An other-race effect for configural and featural processing of faces: upper and lower face regions play different roles

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2015
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Title
An other-race effect for configural and featural processing of faces: upper and lower face regions play different roles
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00559
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Authors

Zhe Wang, Paul C. Quinn, James W. Tanaka, Xiaoyang Yu, Yu-Hao P. Sun, Jiangang Liu, Olivier Pascalis, Liezhong Ge, Kang Lee

Abstract

We examined whether Asian individuals would show differential sensitivity to configural vs. featural changes to own- and other-race faces and whether such sensitivity would depend on whether the changes occurred in the upper vs. lower regions of the faces. We systematically varied the size of key facial features (eyes and mouth) of own-race Asian faces and other-race Caucasian faces, and the configuration (spacing) between the eyes and between the nose and mouth of the two types of faces. Results revealed that the other-race effect (ORE) is more pronounced when featural and configural spacing changes are in the upper region than in the lower region of the face. These findings reveal that information from the upper vs. lower region of the face contributes differentially to the ORE in face processing, and that processing of face race is influenced more by information location (i.e., upper vs. lower) than by information type (i.e., configural vs. featural).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
China 1 2%
South Africa 1 2%
Unknown 63 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 20%
Student > Bachelor 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Professor 4 6%
Researcher 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 15 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 68%
Neuroscience 3 5%
Computer Science 1 2%
Unknown 17 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 January 2023.
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#7,611,089
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#11,167
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#91,472
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#246
of 513 outputs
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