| An important phenomenon exists in face perception is that individuals recognize own-race faces more accurately than other-race faces, or categorize other-race faces more quickly than own-race faces. This phenomenon is called other-race effect. They are not-pure paradigm and experience-uncontrolled participants restrict the validity of present researches about holistic processing and other-race effect in face perception. Besides, Asian participants are remain uncovered. So we are planning to investigate the relationship of holistic processing and other-race effect using a pure paradigm and experience-controlled Asian participants. In experiment 1, we use complete designed composite face paradigm to measure holistic processing effect, and use learn-recognize paradigm to measure other-race effect. We collect experience with other-race individuals using a scale also. We found that Asian participants tended to process faces holistically, both for own-race faces and other-race faces. However, we did not detect other-race effect in recognition task. The holistic processing effect and other-race effect is not correlated based on the above measurement. For the other-race effect is not only demonstrated in a recognize task, but also in a category task, so I would like to investigate the relationship via category task in experiment 2. Oher-race effect was measured using face category paradigm, and holistic processing effect was measured using category composite face task. We observed the other-race effect in our new paradigm, that Asian participants category other-race faces more quickly than own-race faces. Besides, a strong holistic processing effect was also detected by the category composite face task. Most importantly, holistic processing was correlated with other-race effect, though the correlation was moderate to weak. This result indicates that, for Asian participants, a stronger holistic processing comes with a bigger other-race effect in category tasks. |
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