Neural timing of the other‐race effect across the lifespan: A review

L Serafini, F Pesciarelli - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Face race influences the way we process faces, so that faces of a different ethnic group are
processed for identity less efficiently than faces of one's ethnic group‐a phenomenon known …

Visual working memory for faces and facial expressions as a useful “tool” for understanding social and affective cognition

F Gambarota, P Sessa - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Visual working memory (VWM) is one of the most investigated cognitive systems functioning
as a hub between low-and high-level processes. Remarkably, its role in human cognitive …

Taking one's time in feeling other-race pain: an event-related potential investigation on the time-course of cross-racial empathy

P Sessa, F Meconi, L Castelli… - Social cognitive and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Using the event-related potential (ERP) approach, we tracked the time-course of white
participants' empathic reactions to white (own-race) and black (other-race) faces displayed …

An unpleasant emotional state reduces working memory capacity: Electrophysiological evidence

JSB Figueira, L Oliveira, MG Pereira… - Social Cognitive and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Emotional states can guide the actions and decisions we make in our everyday life through
their influence on cognitive processes such as working memory (WM). We investigated the …

Self-face captures, holds, and biases attention

MJ Wójcik, MM Nowicka, I Kotlewska… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The implicit self-recognition process may take place already in the pre-attentive stages of
perception. After a silent stimulus has captured attention, it is passed on to the attentive …

The impact of visual working memory capacity on the filtering efficiency of emotional face distractors

C Ye, Q Xu, Q Liu, F Cong, P Saariluoma… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Emotional faces can serve as distractors for visual working memory (VWM) tasks. An event-
related potential called contralateral delay activity (CDA) can measure the filtering efficiency …

Cognitive control, attention, and the other race effect in memory

TI Brown, MR Uncapher, TE Chow, JL Eberhardt… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
People are better at remembering faces from their own race than other races–a
phenomenon with significant societal implications. This Other Race Effect (ORE) in memory …

Neural measures of the causal role of observers' facial mimicry on visual working memory for facial expressions

P Sessa, A Schiano Lomoriello… - Social cognitive and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Simulation models of facial expressions propose that sensorimotor regions may increase the
clarity of facial expressions representations in extrastriate areas. We monitored the event …

Altering sensorimotor simulation impacts early stages of facial expression processing depending on individual differences in alexithymic traits

AS Lomoriello, A Maffei, S Brigadoi, P Sessa - Brain and Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Simulation models of facial expressions suggest that posterior visual areas and brain areas
underpinning sensorimotor simulations might interact to improve facial expression …

Individual differences in anxiety predict neural measures of visual working memory for untrustworthy faces

F Meconi, R Luria, P Sessa - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
When facing strangers, one of the first evaluations people perform is to implicitly assess their
trustworthiness. However, the underlying processes supporting trustworthiness appraisal …