The role of skin colour in face recognition
The role of skin colour in face recognition
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DOI：
10.1068/p6307
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Yovel, Galit
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作者：
Bar-Haim, Yair;Saidel, Talia;Yovel, Galit
人们对自己种族的面孔的记忆要比对其他种族的面孔的记忆好。有人建议，这种自己的种族识别优势取决于一个初始分类的脸到自己和其他种族的种族标记的基础上，导致在其他种族的面孔个别差异较差的编码。在这里，我们使用了一个学习测试识别任务的刺激，其中的肤色的非洲人和高加索人的脸被操纵，产生四个类别代表的横截面之间的肤色和面部特征。我们发现，尽管肤色的概念起着重要的作用，在分类到自己的脸和其他种族的脸，其对人脸识别的影响是轻微的相对于不同种族的面部特征。
People have better memory for faces from their own racial group than for faces from other races. It has been suggested that this own-race recognition advantage depends on an initial categorisation of faces into own and other race based on racial markers, resulting in poorer encoding of individual variations in other-race faces. Here, we used a study-test recognition task with stimuli in which the skin colour of African and Caucasian faces was manipulated to produce four categories representing the cross-section between Skin color and facial features. We show that, despite the notion that skin colour plays a major role in categorising faces into own and other-race faces, its effect on face recognition is minor relative to differences across races in facial features.