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ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2021

Processing of Task-Irrelevant Race Information is Associated with Diminished Cognitive Control in Black and White Individuals.

Estée Rubien-Thomas, Nia Berrian, Alessandra Cervera, Binyam Nardos, Alexandra O Cohen, Ariel Lowrey, Natalie M Daumeyer, Nicholas P Camp, Brent L Hughes, Jennifer L Eberhardt and 4 more

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Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Estée Rubien-ThomasDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. estee.rubien-thomas@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1421-5750
Nia BerrianDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Alessandra CerveraColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Binyam NardosDepartment of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Alexandra O CohenDepartment of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Ariel LowreyDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Natalie M DaumeyerDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Nicholas P CampDepartment of Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Brent L HughesDepartment of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Jennifer L EberhardtDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Kim A Taylor-ThompsonSchool of Law, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Damien A FairMasonic Institute for the Developing Brain, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Jennifer A RichesonDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
B J CaseyDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Estée Rubien-Thomas, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Yale University · USColumbia University · USNew York Law School · USNew York University · USOregon Health & Science University · USStanford University · USUniversity of California, Riverside · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The race of an individual is a salient physical feature that is rapidly processed by the brain and can bias our perceptions of others. How the race of others explicitly impacts our actions toward them during intergroup contexts is not well understood. In the current study, we examined how task-irrelevant race information influences cognitive control in a go/no-go task in a community sample of Black (n = 54) and White (n = 51) participants. We examined the neural correlates of behavioral effects using functional magnetic resonance imaging and explored the influence of implicit racial attitudes on brain-behavior associations. Both Black and White participants showed more cognitive control failures, as indexed by dprime, to Black versus White faces, despite the irrelevance of race to the task demands. This behavioral pattern was paralleled by greater activity to Black faces in the fusiform face area, implicated in processing face and in-group information, and lateral orbitofrontal cortex, associated with resolving stimulus-response conflict. Exploratory brain-behavior associations suggest different patterns in Black and White individuals. Black participants exhibited a negative association between fusiform activity and response time during impulsive errors to Black faces, whereas White participants showed a positive association between lateral OFC activity and cognitive control performance to Black faces when accounting for implicit racial associations. Together our findings propose that attention to race information is associated with diminished cognitive control that may be driven by different mechanisms for Black and White individuals.

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BrainMagnetic Resonance ImagingBrain MappingCognitionHumansReaction TimeAttentionCognitive controlFace perceptionfMRIImplicit biasRace

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PMID33942274
PMCPMC8208919
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