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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2009 Nov 4;13(12):524–531. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.002

Figure 3.

Figure 3

A preliminary model of the distributed brain areas involved in race perception. Extant research indicates that racial category membership modulates responses in areas previously associated with face perception (labeled “Face Perception”), inferences about the storage and retrieval of person knowledge (“Person Knowledge”), arousal of affect and evaluation (“Evaluation”), and regulation of behavioral responses (“Behavior Regulation”). This model also includes brain areas for which sensitivity to race has not been widely examined, but are expected based on the involvement of these areas with related aspects of social cognition. These areas are denoted with italics.