Own-Race Faces Capture Attention Faster than Other-Race Faces: Evidence from Response Time and the N2pc

Guomei Zhou; Zhijie Cheng; Zhenzhu Yue; Colin Tredoux; Jibo He; Ling Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127709

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Own-Race Faces Capture Attention Faster than Other-Race Faces: Evidence from Response Time and the N2pc

Guomei Zhou ,

* E-mail: zhougm@mail.sysu.edu.cn (GZ); yuezhenzhu@gmail.com (ZY)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Zhijie Cheng,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Zhenzhu Yue ,

* E-mail: zhougm@mail.sysu.edu.cn (GZ); yuezhenzhu@gmail.com (ZY)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Colin Tredoux,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Jibo He,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
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Ling Wang

Affiliation Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Own-Race Faces Capture Attention Faster than Other-Race Faces: Evidence from Response Time and the N2pc

Guomei Zhou,
Zhijie Cheng,
Zhenzhu Yue,
Colin Tredoux,
Jibo He,
Ling Wang

Published: June 4, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127709

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Figure 3 appears to have 4 identical waveforms

Posted by Delos on 20 Nov 2019 at 14:03 GMT

It is most likely a typo in the code generating the waveform images, as the analyses notes differences at the different electrode sites. I just wanted to make a brief note of it for the authors.

No competing interests declared.

RE: Figure 3 appears to have 4 identical waveforms

zhougm replied to Delos on 29 Jan 2020 at 17:53 GMT

Thank you very much for your note.

I confirm that the error indicated by the comment in the Fig 3 is present. This is due to a typo in the Matlab Code.

I feel very sorry about that.

This error does not affect the results, conclusion, and overall scientific understanding of this study, since the data is correct in the paper.

We have posted a corrected Fig.3 at https://osf.io/z9yvd/.

No competing interests declared.

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Figure 3 appears to have 4 identical waveforms

Posted by Delos on 20 Nov 2019 at 14:03 GMT

RE: Figure 3 appears to have 4 identical waveforms

zhougm replied to Delos on 29 Jan 2020 at 17:53 GMT