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I investigated amount of fixation duration and proportion of fixations made to the eyes/mouth regions of own-race and other-race faces, as well as the viewing patterns to background scenes that were associated with own-race and other-race faces."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Cross-race effect in relational memory: An eye-tracking investigation"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Sahakyan, Lili","Feidermeier, Kara"],"dc:creator":["Ding, Huiyu"],"dc:date":["2022-08","2022-04-25"],"dc:description":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01","The student, Huiyu Ding, accepted the attached license on 2022-04-18 at 16:08.","The student, Huiyu Ding, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-04-18 at 16:12.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-04-25 at 15:20.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17763 on 2022-11-15 at 19:16:08","The cross-race effect (CRE) is a well-known finding wherein own-race faces are better recognized than other-race faces. 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