{"id":1532,"date":"2024-02-15T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:57:35","slug":"15-02-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/2024\/02\/15\/15-02-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"15\/02\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The influence of face-ethnicity on word recognition: a cognitive pupillometry study<br><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anna Lorenzoni, Giulia Calignano, Eduardo Navarrete &amp; Mario Dalmaso<\/strong> (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethnicity plays a substantial role in shaping the way faces are perceived. At the same time, several social factors seem to influence word recognition. However, there is currently a lack of research investigating whether word recognition is influenced by the ethnicity of concomitant facial stimuli. In a lexical-decision task, 48 Italian participants were presented with words and non-words along with Caucasian (ingroup) or Asian (outgroup) faces. Participants saw a face for 2000ms, followed&nbsp;by a linguistic-stimulus and decided whether the string of letters represented a word or a non-word&nbsp;in their native language (Italian). Reaction times were faster for words with respect to non-words&nbsp;(lexicality-effect), and for high-frequency with respect to low-frequency words (frequency-effect).&nbsp;Results also showed greater pupil dilation indicating increased attentional engagement towards&nbsp;outgroup-faces compared to ingroup-faces. Then, when the linguistic stimulus was presented, a first&nbsp;interaction was observed showing that pupil dilation was greater for words with respect to non-words when presented with an ingroup-face. The opposite emerged by presenting an outgroup-face.&nbsp;In addition, a substantial interaction was observed showing greater pupil dilation for high-frequency&nbsp;with respect to low-frequency words, only for outgroup-face. We interpreted these interactions as&nbsp;an indication that word-recognition processes (words and high-frequency words) can be&nbsp;dramatically affected by face-ethnicity. Our results allow us to interpret the cognitive pupillary-response as an index of word recognition influenced by the ethnicity of the face. The data from this&nbsp;study provides early support for the idea that social cues influence an automatic process such as&nbsp;word recognition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The influence of face-ethnicity on word recognition: a cognitive pupillometry study &#8211; Anna Lorenzoni, Giulia Calignano, Eduardo Navarrete &#038; Mario Dalmaso (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}