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David Eagleman: A neuroscientist discusses time, perception and consciousness

Into the Magic Shop

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The Race Effect on Recognition

This is the other race effect, which is to say whatever race you are, your recognition just isn't that good in terms of seeing other people that you don't know well. So for example, if you and I had to identify an Eskimo who had broken into our house and we'd seen him, we would be terrible at it. But it's not racism as we talked about in other ways. It's just the fact that we are not Eskimos ourselves and we don't become experts at the details of an Eskimo face. And so there's this increased sensitivity that a subset of people, and whether they're black, brown, whatever color they are, compared to the

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