Ge Liezhong, Zhang Hongchuan, Wang Zhe, Quinn Paul C, Pascalis Olivier, Kelly David, Slater Alan, Tian Jie, Lee Kang
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, PR China.
Perception. 2009;38(8):1199-210. doi: 10.1068/p6136.
The other-race effect is a collection of phenomena whereby faces of one's own race are processed differently from those of other races. Previous studies have revealed a paradoxical mirror pattern of an own-race advantage in face recognition and an other-race advantage in race-based categorisation. With a well-controlled design, we compared recognition and categorisation of own-race and other-race faces in both Caucasian and Chinese participants. Compared with own-race faces, other-race faces were less accurately and more slowly recognised, whereas they were more rapidly categorised by race. The mirror pattern was confirmed by a unique negative correlation between the two effects in terms of reaction time with a hierarchical regression analysis. This finding suggests an antagonistic interaction between the processing of face identity and that of face category, and a common underlying processing mechanism.
异族效应是一系列现象的集合，即人们对自己种族的面孔与其他种族的面孔有着不同的处理方式。先前的研究揭示了一种自相矛盾的镜像模式：在人脸识别中存在本族优势，而在基于种族的分类中存在异族优势。通过精心控制的设计，我们比较了白种人和中国参与者对本族和异族面孔的识别与分类。与本族面孔相比，异族面孔的识别准确性更低、速度更慢，而按种族分类的速度则更快。通过层次回归分析，在反应时间方面两种效应之间存在独特的负相关，从而证实了这种镜像模式。这一发现表明，面孔身份处理与面孔类别处理之间存在拮抗作用，以及一种共同的潜在处理机制。
