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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 5(6), p. e19858, 2011

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019858

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Perceptual Training Prevents the Emergence of the Other Race Effect during Infancy

Journal article published in 2011 by Michelle Heron-Delaney, See Profile, Gizelle Anzures, Jane S. Herbert, Paul C. Quinn, Alan M. Slater, James W. Tanaka, Kang Lee, W. James, Olivier Pascalis ORCID
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Abstract

Experience plays a crucial role in the development of the face processing system. At 6 months of age infants can discriminate individual faces from their own and other races. By 9 months of age this ability to process other-race faces is typically lost, due to minimal experience with other-race faces, and vast exposure to own-race faces, for which infants come to manifest expertise [1]. This is known as the Other Race Effect. In the current study, we demonstrate that exposing Caucasian infants to Chinese faces through perceptual training via picture books for a total of one hour between 6 and 9 months allows Caucasian infants to maintain the ability to discriminate Chinese faces at 9 months of age. The development of the processing of face race can be modified by training, highlighting the importance of early experience in shaping the face representation.