Fig. 2.

N170s elicited by Black and White faces from White subjects, showing the effect of social goals in the encoding of ingroup and outgroup faces. Panel A shows larger N170s to outgroup Black than ingroup White faces when subjects are motivated to attend to faces at the level of unique individuals. Panel B shows that the pattern reverses when subjects simply categorize the faces by race, resulting in larger N170s to ingroup White than outgroup Black faces. Panel C shows the topography of the N170 response (specifically over the 140–200 ms time window) (Senholzi and Ito, 2013). Structural face encoding: How task affects the N170’s sensitivity to race. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, by permission of Oxford University Press.