Abstract: The own-race bias refers to the phenomenon that people have better memory for own-race face compared to other-race face. N170, P200, N200 and “DM” effect explain the own-race bias from the encoding perspective, while Old-New effect focus on the retrieval difference between own-race face and other-race. FMRI studies have indicated some brain areas, such as amygdala, fusiform gyrus, post anterior cingulate, which might be involved in the processes of own-race bias. Besides, right hemisphere dominance of the own-race face are stronger than other-race face, which is the result of rich perceptual experience. Future research should explore specific ERPs of the own-race bias, and it indicates that the Neural Mechanisms from integrated prospective will also be the future direction.

Key words: own-race bias, neural mechanisms, ERP, fMRI