SYMPOSIUM: Neural, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in recognising other-race and other-age faces

It is well-established that people are better able to recognise faces of their own ethnicity than of an unfamiliar ethnicity. This is often known as the other-race effect (ORE). A similar effect has been found for age where we are better able to recognise individuals from our own age group than much younger or older groups. However the source of these effects remains controversial. In this symposium three international visitors present new research on the perceptual, cognitive and neural processes that underlie these effects.

1. Kate Crookes (University of Hong Kong) - Holistic and configural face processing in Chinese participants 2. Will Hayward (University of Hong Kong) - Is the other-race effect due to perception or memory? 3. Holger Wiese (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany) - The role of race and age for recognition memory of unfamiliar faces (Behavioural & ERP evidence)