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Analyzing the Other Race Effect through I.S. research

Major: cognitive behavioral neuroscience Mentor: Grit Herzmann, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience I.S. title: “Now you see me — now you don’t: An investigation of hair alteration effects on face identification in own and other race faces”��

Maresa �ղ���é spent her senior year studying the Other Race Effect, which is the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces within their race, rather than outside of their race. �ղ���é focused her research on how external features and hair alterations affect this perception. �ղ���é was able to develop a plan with her faculty mentor that met her needs specifically. “I think the best thing about having that one-on-one mentoring experience is that I have the opportunity to learn from the best of the best, but also at my own pace and with my own style.” Showing her great ability to adapt, �ղ���é had to completely change her I.S. topic when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Her initial plan to study epilepsy in Cameroon, which has the highest epilepsy rates in the world, was quickly altered by travel restrictions. Neuroscience courses that �ղ���é, a cognitive and behavioral neuroscience major, took her junior year helped her to easily adjust and develop this new topic.��

To watch the videos that �ղ���é made about her progress throughout her I.S. journey click here: , , and . ��

Originally published in the summer 2021 issue of��Wooster��magazine.

Posted in Independent Study on June 21, 2021.