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From: Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

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ERP waveforms to the standard and deviant cultural pictures and the deviant-minus-standard difference waveforms at the Cz electrode time-locked to the onset of stimuli. The scalp maps show a central distribution at the 40 ms time period of the peak vMMN responses. For individuals with high racial essentialism, vMMNs were elicited by both the Eastern and Western deviants with high cultural relevance, but only by the Eastern deviants with low cultural relevance. For individuals with low racial essentialism, vMMN was only elicited by the Eastern deviants with high cultural relevance. Positive ERP responses are plotted downward and represented by hot colors in the scalp maps. * indicates significant peak vMMN response (p < 0.05) in the 150 ms to 400 ms analysis time window.

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