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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ujiie, Yuta
• Takahashi, Kohske

Titel

Own-race faces promote integrated audiovisual speech information

Ist Teil von

• Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2022-05, Vol.75 (5), p.924-935

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The other-race effect indicates a perceptual advantage when processing own-race faces. This effect has been demonstrated in individuals’ recognition of facial identity and emotional expressions. However, it remains unclear whether the other-race effect also exists in multisensory domains. We conducted two experiments to provide evidence for the other-race effect in facial speech recognition, using the McGurk effect. Experiment 1 tested this issue among East Asian adults, examining the magnitude of the McGurk effect during stimuli using speakers from two different races (own-race vs. other-race). We found that own-race faces induced a stronger McGurk effect than other-race faces. Experiment 2 indicated that the other-race effect was not simply due to different levels of attention being paid to the mouths of own- and other-race speakers. Our findings demonstrated that own-race faces enhance the weight of visual input during audiovisual speech perception, and they provide evidence of the own-race effect in the audiovisual interaction for speech perception in adults.