Women typically remember more female than male faces, whereas men do not show a reliable own-gender bias. However, little is known about the neural correlates of this own-gender bias in face recognition memory. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated whether face gender modulated brain activity in fusiform and inferior occipital gyri during incidental encoding of fac...

Abstract The capacity of visual working memory (VWM) depends on the complexity stimuli being processed. Emotional characteristics increase stimulus and can interfere with competition for cognitive resources. Studies involving emotional information processing are scarce still produce contradicting results. In present study, we investigated VWM faces positive, negative, neutral expressions. A mod...

Participants are more accurate at remembering faces of their own relative to another ethnic group (own-race bias, ORB). This phenomenon has been explained by reduced perceptual expertise, or alternatively, by the categorization of other-race faces into social out-groups and reduced effort to individuate such faces. We examined event-related potential (ERP) correlates of the ORB, testing recogni...