Difficulty remembering faces of different ethnicities not down to racism – study

Friends from different races and culture. Researchers at the University of Exeter believe they have found the root cause of the “other race effect” deep within the brain (Alamy/PA)

The fact that humans struggle to remember faces of people from different ethnic groups is down to processes deep within the brain rather than a learned social bias, according to new research.

A study dating back to the 1960s, and replicated many times since, has proven that people find it difficult to recall if they have seen a person from a different race before.