Hemispheric asymmetry in cross-race face recognition.

This study examines two phenomena related to face perception, both of which depend on experience and holistic processing: perceivers process faces more efficiently in the right hemisphere of the brain (a hemispheric asymmetry), and they typically show greater recognition accuracy for members of thei...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1162 - 1167
Main Authors:	Correll, Joshua, Lemoine, Caroline, Ma, Debbie S.
Format:	Article
Published:	Academic Press Inc. November 2011
Subjects:	Face Recognition (Psychology) Racial differences Brain function localization
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost