Associations among gender-linked toy preferences, spatial ability, and digit ratio: Evidence from eye-tracking analysis
Associations among gender-linked toy preferences, spatial ability, and digit ratio: Evidence from eye-tracking analysis
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-006-9038-2
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Alexander, Gerianne M.
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作者：
Alexander, Gerianne M.
眼动追踪技术被用来监测64名成年人（年龄范围，18-22岁）在同时呈现“男性”和“女性”玩具时的眼动。与女性典型玩具相比，对男性典型玩具表现出更多视觉固定的女性和男性具有更好的瞄准能力和更小的（即，更男性化）指比，一个假定的产前雄激素水平的标志。与此相反，个人的视觉偏好的女性典型或男性典型的玩具没有不同的心理旋转能力，并在他们的回顾性报告的儿童期性别相关的活动。这一发现，针对性的能力和数字的比例不同，根据视觉偏好的性别相关的玩具表明，产前雄激素促进持久的偏好男性典型的对象，并进一步表明，一些性别相关的特征不同，根据方向的视觉偏好的性别相关的玩具。因此，来自眼动追踪的视觉偏好，可能是一个有用的补充，以目前的措施，心理性别分化的研究，特别是因为眼动不依赖于言语能力或主观评价的行为。
Eye-tracking technology was used to monitor eye-movements in 64 adults (age range, 18-22 years) during simultaneous presentation of "masculine" and "feminine" toys. Women and men who showed more visual fixations on male-typical toys compared to female-typical toys had significantly better targeting ability and smaller (i.e., more masculine) digit ratios, a putative marker of prenatal androgen levels. In contrast, individuals with visual preferences for female-typical or male-typical toys did not differ in mental rotations ability and in their retrospective reports of childhood gender-linked activities. The finding that targeting ability and digit ratios varied according to visual preferences for gender-linked toys suggests that prenatal androgens promote enduring preferences for male-typical objects and indicate further that some gender-linked traits vary according to the direction of a visual preference for gender-linked toys. Visual preferences derived from eye-tracking, therefore, may be a useful supplement to current measures of psychosexual differentiation in hormone-behavior research, particularly because eye-movements are not dependent on verbal abilities or subjective evaluations of behavior.