Do congenital prosopagnosia and the other-race effect affect the same face recognition mechanisms?

ABSTRACT: Congenital prosopagnosia (CP), an innate impairment in recognizing faces, as well as the other-race effect (ORE), a disadvantage in recognizing faces of foreign races, both affect face recognition abilities. Are the same face processing mechanisms affected in both situations? To investigate this question, we tested three groups of 21 participants: German congenital prosopagnosics, South Korean participants and German controls on three different tasks involving faces and objects. First we tested all participants on the Cambridge Face Memory Test in which they had to recognize Caucasian target faces in a 3-alternative-forced-choice task. German controls performed better than Koreans who performed better than prosopagnosics. In the second experiment, participants rated the similarity of Cauca

SUBMITTER: Esins J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4179381 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature