Inequality between biases in face memory: Event-related potentials reveal dissociable neural correlates of own-race and own-gender biases

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
Holger Wiese, Stefan R Schweinberger

Abstract

Humans are more accurate at remembering faces from their own relative to a different ethnic group (own-race bias). Moreover, better memory for faces from an observer's own relative to the other-gender (own-gender bias) has also been reported, particularly for female participants. Theoretical explanations for these effects either emphasize differential perceptual expertise or socio-cognitive factors. Importantly, both types of explanations typically assume a single common mechanism for the various biases. The present study examined event-related potentials (ERP) in a combined own-race/own-gender bias experiment. Whereas both male and female participants demonstrated clear own-race biases in memory performance, enhanced memory for own-gender faces was only observed in female participants. Moreover, the own-race bias was accompanied by larger N170 responses for other-race faces, presumably reflecting more effortful perceptual processing of this face category. Neural correlates of the own-gender bias manifested at later processing stages, reflecting the processing of individual faces (N250) and recollection-based memory retrieval (late ERP old/new effect). We conclude that different face memory biases occur at temporally distinct s...Continue Reading

Citations

Oct 13, 2018·Social Neuroscience·Giulia Prete, Luca Tommasi
Jun 12, 2019·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·Simone C Tüttenberg, Holger Wiese
Sep 24, 2019·The Journal of General Psychology·Vicki S Gier, David S Kreiner
Oct 31, 2019·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·Vonetta M Dotson, Audrey Duarte
Jul 3, 2019·British Journal of Psychology·Simone C Tüttenberg, Holger Wiese
May 8, 2018·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Tamara RakićHolger Wiese
Oct 14, 2020·Scientific Reports·Pin Pin Tea-Makorn, Michal Kosinski
Dec 29, 2020·Brain and Cognition·Gizelle Anzures, Melissa Mildort
Sep 11, 2021·Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·Gizelle AnzuresElizabeth Soethe

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