ABSTRACT
A similar point can be made for age and ethnicity effects on occipito-
temporal P2. This component is larger for own-relative to other-race faces,
and the P2 ethnicity effect is modulated by expertise, as both Caucasian
experts for Asian faces and Asian participants who had been living in
Germany for approximately 2 years did not show this effect (Stahl et al., 2008; Wiese et al., in press). As discussed previously, young faces elicit a
more positive P2 than old faces, but again this effect occurs in both young
and older adult participants. These findings suggest that early perceptual
processing stages are more important for the own-race bias than for the OAB
in memory.
