The influence of task demands and implicit racial bias on face-sensitive visual ERPs to own- and other-race faces.

ABSTRACT: The P100, N170, P200, and N250 have been implicated in previous studies on face perception, including perception of own- and other-race faces. The present study examines the potential influence of participants' implicit racial biases as well as that of task demands, as these factors may contribute to the mixed findings in the literature and shed insight on the cognitive mechanisms underlying own- and other-race face perception. White adults completed a face race categorization task and a face identity processing task with White and Asian faces while continuous EEG was recorded. Participants with larger implicit biases favoring their own race tended to show larger N170 to P200 and P200 to N250 peak-to-peak amplitudes in the right hemisphere when categorizing faces by race and when processin

SUBMITTER: Anzures G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12124836 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature