Frontiers | The Left-Side Bias Is Reduced to Other-Race Faces in Caucasian Individuals
A stable marker of face perception seems to be a left-side bias, that is, a tendency to rely more on the information conveyed by the left-side of faces as compared to their right-side. Previous studies showed that the left-side bias is affected by the familiarity or experience with the face stimuli. Since lower familiarity is the hallmark of other-race relative to own-race faces, the left-side bias should be weaker for other-race faces. Further, in Chinese participants face inversion has been found to abolish the left-side bias for own-race faces. Therefore, it is of interest, whether the face...
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