Past BCD Lab Projects

Other-Race Effect Study

The other race effect (ORE), also called the own-race effect/bias or cross-race effect/bias, is a commonly reported phenomenon in which people have more difficultly differentiating and remembering faces of another race compared to faces within ones own race. The ORE is assumed to reflect differential experience with own- and other-race faces. However, it is currently unclear how race specific information influences face-processing abilities. This study was designed to investigate the ORE in the context of a recognition memory paradigm in adults. Both behavioral and electrophysiological measures are recorded while participants view and respond to faces of their own and other-races.