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http://dx.doi.org/10.19066/cogsci.2022.33.2.001

Up-regulation of an ERP component toward racial-outgroup faces in Koreans but not in non-Korean visitors  

Kim, Hyuk (School of psychology, Korea University)
Lee, Kang-hee (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Kim, Hyun-Taek (School of psychology, Korea University)
Choi, June-Seek (School of psychology, Korea University)
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Korean Journal of Cognitive Science / v.33, no.2, 2022 , pp. 95-107 More about this Journal
Abstract
Facial processing of different racial origin has been investigated at various levels including perceptual, emotional, and socio-cultural processing. Particularly, a good deal of studies have been conducted to show "other race effect (ORE)" to indicate that subtle facial information such as identity or emotional expressions are often under-processed in racial out-group members. However, few studies have investigated whether attentional modulation toward racial out-group faces could explain ORE. We investigated whether novelty-driven attentional mechanism is involved in face perception using event-related potential (ERP). Twenty-two Korean (KR) and nine Caucasian-American (AM) participants were presented with emotional faces from the two racial origins while they performed a gender categorization task. KRs showed significantly greater P3 amplitudes to AM than to KR faces indicating that the early attentional processing underlies differential perception of racial out-group faces. Interestingly, P3 was not up-regulated in the AM subjects when they were presented with KR faces, perhaps due to massive habituation to KR faces during everyday social interaction. These results indicate that racial out-group faces are highly salient stimuli which automatically occupy attentional resources, but easily habituated with repeated exposure to the racial-out group.
Keywords
ERP; other race effect (ORE); face; novelty; P3;
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