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Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing?

The other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested th...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Philippe, Vergauwe, Evie, Camos, Valerie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9936906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36818491
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.263
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description The other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a working memory maintenance mechanism called attentional refreshing mediates the other-race effect and that faces from one’s own ethnicity are refreshed more efficiently than faces from other ethnicities. In two experiments, face ethnicity was orthogonally manipulated with cognitive load of a concurrent processing task in a complex-span paradigm (Exp. 1) and with the memory load in a Brown-Peterson paradigm (Exp. 2). Both cognitive and memory load effects are indices of the functioning of attentional refreshing. Testing Caucasian young adults, Caucasian and East-Asian faces were contrasted. Results from both experiments were congruent and against our initial hypothesis. The other-race effect in working memory does not appear to be supported by attentional refreshing. Furthermore, the results are congruent with the idea that faces as a whole are not maintained in working memory via attentional refreshing.
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spelling pubmed-99369062023-02-18 Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing? Schneider, Philippe Vergauwe, Evie Camos, Valerie J Cogn Data Report The other-race effect is the observation that faces from another ethnicity induce worst recall performance than faces from one’s own ethnicity. This effect has been defined as a type of familiarity effect, with more familiar faces better recalled than less familiar faces. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a working memory maintenance mechanism called attentional refreshing mediates the other-race effect and that faces from one’s own ethnicity are refreshed more efficiently than faces from other ethnicities. In two experiments, face ethnicity was orthogonally manipulated with cognitive load of a concurrent processing task in a complex-span paradigm (Exp. 1) and with the memory load in a Brown-Peterson paradigm (Exp. 2). Both cognitive and memory load effects are indices of the functioning of attentional refreshing. Testing Caucasian young adults, Caucasian and East-Asian faces were contrasted. Results from both experiments were congruent and against our initial hypothesis. The other-race effect in working memory does not appear to be supported by attentional refreshing. Furthermore, the results are congruent with the idea that faces as a whole are not maintained in working memory via attentional refreshing. Ubiquity Press 2023-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9936906/ /pubmed/36818491 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.263 Text en Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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