Face Recognition Training
The cross-race effect is the tendency to more easily recognize, and distinguish between, same-race than other-race faces. In an effort to reduce the cross-race effect, I developed a short-term training program designed to help people better recognize faces. The training taught participants about holistic processing, which involves observing the spatial positioning and relationships between features of a face (e.g., the eyes relative to the nose and mouth) rather than observing features in isolation. In the lab, we are currently coding qualitative data collected within the training to assess whether participants engaged in holistic processing.