McKone, ElinorStokes, SachaLiu, JiaCohan, SarahFiorentini, ChiaraPidcock, MadeleineYovel, GalitBroughton, MaryPelleg, Michel2015-11-262015-11-261932-6203http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16851Other-race and other-ethnicity effects on face memory have remained a topic of consistent research interest over several decades, across fields including face perception, social psychology, and forensic psychology (eyewitness testimony). Here we demonstrate that the Cambridge Face Memory Test format provides a robust method for measuring these effects. Testing the Cambridge Face Memory Test original version (CFMT-original; European-ancestry faces from Boston USA) and a new Cambridge Face Memory Test Chinese (CFMT-Chinese), with European and Asian observers, we report a race-of-face by race-of-observer interaction that was highly significant despite modest sample size and despite observers who had quite high exposure to the other race. We attribute this to high statistical power arising from the very high internal reliability of the tasks. This power also allows us to demonstrate a much smaller within-race other ethnicity effect, based on differences in European physiognomy between Boston faces/observers and Australian faces/observers (using the CFMT-Australian).This study was supported by Australian Research Council (DP0984558 to EM); National Institutes of Health grant 5R01EY013602-07 to Ken Nakayama (for SC’s salary and testing of Harvard participants); National Natural Science Foundation of China (91132703 to JL); Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders (project number CE110001021). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.© 2012 McKone et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.adolescentadultasian continental ancestry groupaustraliaethnic groupseuropean continental ancestry groupfacefemalehumansmalememorypattern recognition, visualphysiognomyreproducibility of resultsyoung adultneuropsychological testsrecognition (psychology)2012-10-3010.1371/journal.pone.00479562015-12-10