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Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words

Author(s): Ventura, Paulo ; Pereira, Alexandre ; Cruz, F. ; Delgado, João ; Faustino, Bruno ; Guerreiro, José Carlos

Date: 2023

Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/63253

Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Subject(s): ORE; Faces; Holistic processing; Change detection; Change localization


Description

The other-race effect (ORE) is a well-known phenomenon in which people discriminate and recognize faces from their ethnic group more accurately than faces from other ethnic groups. Holistic processing, or the mandatory tendency to process all parts of an object together, has been proposed as an explanation for the ORE. According to the holistic perspective of the ORE, other-race faces might be subject to weaker holistic processing than own-race faces. However, evidence for this hypothesis is inconsistent. Although it is generally assumed that holistic processing helps the individuation of objects, holistic processing may also come at a cost. Specifically, holistic processing may reduce the capacity to localize changes in the constituent parts of an object, but not in detecting changes to an object as a whole. In the present study, we examined change detection and change localization accuracy for Caucasian and African faces, and houses. Performance was better for change detection than change localization for Caucasian faces. While clear costs of holistic processing for Caucasian faces were thus found, the difference between change localization and change detection was not obvious for African faces. However, childhood exposure to other-race people correlated with change detection for African faces, but not with change localization for African faces. Our results thus show that holistic processing of other-race faces may depend on early contact with other-race people.

Document Type Journal article
Language German
Contributor(s) Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
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