Face Processing and the Own-Race Bias - A Study of Typical Development and Autism

Noah Sasson

ISBN 10: 3836426692 / ISBN 13: 9783836426695

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. 2007-08-30, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Face Processing and the Own-Race Bias - A Study of Typical Development and Autism
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. 2007-08-30
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3836426692
• ISBN 13: 9783836426695
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Same-race faces are better discriminated and recognized than less experienced, other-races faces. This "Own-Race Bias" (ORB) has been robustly demonstrated in many psychological studies, yet the perceptual basis of this phenomenon is still not well understood. Recent face perception studies have discovered that configural properties of the face (i.e., the spatial relations among features) are processed differently than featural information, and may be directly tied to developmental experience with faces. This study examines age-related changes in the ORB and seeks to determine whether a superior developmental improvement in the perception of configural information in more experienced same-race faces contributes to the emergence of the ORB. A sample of children and adults with high-functioning autism were also included to test whether these processes differ for this population. The book is addressed to researchers interested in development, face perception, and autism.

About the Author

Dr. Noah Sassonholds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of North Carolina and is currently a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies the perception of social and emotional information in autism and schizophrenia