Gender differences in recognition of toy faces suggest a contribution of experience.
Gender differences in recognition of toy faces suggest a contribution of experience.
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玩具面孔识别方面的性别差异表明经验的贡献。
DOI：
10.1016/j.visres.2016.10.003
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Gauthier,Isabel
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作者：
Ryan,KaitlinF;Gauthier,Isabel
当存在性别效应时，女性在面孔识别任务中的表现比男性更好。之前的研究没有记录男性在人脸识别任务中的优势，这表明女性在人脸识别方面的表现通常会优于男性，要么是因为进化的原因，要么是因为社会角色的影响。在这里，我们质疑女性在所有人脸识别方面都更胜一筹的观点，并根据男性优于女性的人脸类别提供概念证明。我们开发了一项面孔学习测试，使用芭比娃娃和变形金刚的面孔来衡量不同面孔类别的个体差异，男性和女性在这方面的体验可能不同。结果显示，受试者的性别和类别之间存在交叉互动，男性的表现优于拥有变形金刚面孔的女性。我们证明，男性在某些类别的面孔上表现优于女性，这表明实际上没有必要解释女性的一般面孔识别优势。
When there is a gender effect, women perform better then men in face recognition tasks. Prior work has not documented a male advantage on a face recognition task, suggesting that women may outperform men at face recognition generally either due to evolutionary reasons or the influence of social roles. Here, we question the idea that women excel at all face recognition and provide a proof of concept based on a face category for which men outperform women. We developed a test of face learning to measures individual differences with face categories for which men and women may differ in experience, using the faces of Barbie dolls and of Transformers. The results show a crossover interaction between subject gender and category, where men outperform women with Transformers’ faces. We demonstrate that men can outperform women with some categories of faces, suggesting that explanations for a general face recognition advantage for women are in fact not needed.