Major
Psychology
Anticipated Graduation Year
2023
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Open Access
Abstract
This study explores the Other Race Effect (ORE) in infants, which is the difficulty individuals have in differentiating and remembering faces of different races or ethnicities. This study aims to investigate how audiovisual exposure affects infants' processing of faces of their own and other races. Based on the Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis (IRH), the study hypothesizes that audiovisual exposure will improve newborns' ability to perceive faces of their own and other races. The study will utilize a familiarization trial and a visual paired comparison (VPC) trial with sets of multimodal own- and other-race face stimuli presented synchronously and asynchronously to assess newborns' ability to distinguish between faces of their own and other races. This study will provide insights into the mechanisms underlying audiovisual processing in infancy.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Margaret Guy, Assistant Professor, Psychology; Aslı Bursalıoğlu, Graduate Research Assistant, Psychology
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The Influence of Multimodal Exposure on the Development of the Other-Race Effect in Infancy
This study explores the Other Race Effect (ORE) in infants, which is the difficulty individuals have in differentiating and remembering faces of different races or ethnicities. This study aims to investigate how audiovisual exposure affects infants' processing of faces of their own and other races. Based on the Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis (IRH), the study hypothesizes that audiovisual exposure will improve newborns' ability to perceive faces of their own and other races. The study will utilize a familiarization trial and a visual paired comparison (VPC) trial with sets of multimodal own- and other-race face stimuli presented synchronously and asynchronously to assess newborns' ability to distinguish between faces of their own and other races. This study will provide insights into the mechanisms underlying audiovisual processing in infancy.
Comments
I participated in this research for the Cura Scholars Program which I've been a member of for 2 years now.