Professor Tree explained, "The diversity of individuals' cognitive ability is far larger than we anticipated. Some people's day-to-day face processing abilities may be perfectly fine, but when it ...

Difficulty remembering faces of different ethnicities not down to racism – study Researchers at the University of Exeter believe they have found the root cause of the “other race effect ...

New research reveals that some individuals may experience selective difficulty recognizing faces from racial groups different ...

These depended on whether the face was of the same race or a different one. Same-race faces triggered more differentiated brain responses, suggesting that people perceive them in finer detail.

Two factors in face recognition: Whether you know the person’s face and whether you share the person’s race. Perception , 50 (6), 524-539. More references ...

Now researchers at Swansea University are examining why it can also be more difficult for some individuals to recognize the faces of people from racial groups different to their own.

Being among people of a different ethnicity, you might find it difficult to tell individuals apart in a group of faces.This has been called the "other race effect" (though because race is an ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter believe they have found the root cause of the “other race effect” deep within the brain. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

July 29, 2022 at 4:08pm BST. The fact that humans struggle to remember faces of people from different ethnic groups is down to processes deep within the brain rather than a learned social bias ...

The fact that humans struggle to remember faces of people from different ethnic groups is down to processes deep within the brain rather than a learned social bias, according to new research. A study ...

The fact that humans struggle to remember faces of people from different ethnic groups is down to processes deep within the brain rather than a learned social bias, according to new research.

Friends from different races and culture. Researchers at the University of Exeter believe they have found the root cause of the “other race effect” deep within the brain (Alamy/PA) ...