Sex differences in face gender recognition: An event-related potential study

Sun, Yuzhu; Gao, Xiaochao; Han, Shihui

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.013

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“…The present occipital-temporal N450 effect would be in line with higher attentional processing of the (gender of) the distracter face in the incongruent condition. Whereas we did no source localisation in the present study, prior fMRI (Haxby et al, 2000(Haxby et al, , 2002 and ERP studies (Sun et al, 2010) have provided evidence for gender-face processing in/above fusiform cortex and face processing studies have localized activity above temporal-occipital cortex to fusiform cortex (Rossion et al, 2003;Schweinberger et al, 2002). Furthermore two studies by Fruhholz et al (2009a,b) provided evidence that interference effects similar to N450 can be observed at parietal and occipital electrodes when processing face stimuli (in the presence of irrelevant contextual information), and that increased activity for incongruent trials in the fusiform cortex is related to this face categorization.…”

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Electrophysiological evidence for different effects of working memory load on interference control in adolescents than adults

Spronk¹,

Jonkman²

2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The present study investigated how the development of interference control is influenced by the development of working memory (WM) capacity during adolescence. In a dual-task, 17 adolescents (12-16 years) and 19 adults (18-48 years) performed a gender word-face Stroop task, while WM-capacity was manipulated by a concurrently performed N-back task. Behavior (reaction times, % errors and % misses) and event-related potentials associated with the detection (N450) of the Stroop conflict and response selection (sustained positivity; SP) were measured without or with a concurrent WM load. Adolescents had lower accuracy on N-back and Stroop trials than adults. N450 results showed Stroop conflict above temporal-occipital cortex which was suggested to be caused by processing of distracter faces. This N450 conflict response was smaller in adults and only present when holding a simultaneous WM-load, whereas adolescents' N450 conflict responses were already present without a concurrent WM-load and did not further increase with load. These N450 results indicate poorer distracter suppression in adolescence which is suggested to be due to insufficient attentional resources for top-down control. Irrespective of WM-load, adolescents also had larger parietal SP conflict responses than adults, suggesting inefficient response selection in case of activation of two conflicting responses. The main conclusion is that adolescents have worse distracter suppression than adults, caused by lower availability of resources for top-down control.

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confidence: 59%

Electrophysiological evidence for different effects of working memory load on interference control in adolescents than adults

Spronk¹,

Jonkman²

2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Many psychological [1-3] and physiological [4-16] studies have revealed gender differences in facial processing. Wood and Eagly [17] argued that gender differences in behaviours might be generated from biological specialization, such as male physical attributes (size, strength and speed) and female reproductive capacity.…”

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“…Some event-related potential (ERP) studies [4-9] have also investigated gender differences in facial processing, using N170 as the index of attention. N170 is an ERP component showing a negative peak around 170 ms after face onset in the posterior temporal area [18-22] and is thus considered a face-selective ERP component.…”

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“…Given that N170 is more negative when faces are attended than when faces are presented outside the attentional focus [21], a more negative N170 appears to reflect increased attention to faces. Sun et al [4] revealed that females showed a more negative amplitude of N170 when discriminating orientations (right or left) of faces than genders of faces, while males did not. From this result, the authors suggested that the effect of task demands on N170 is more obvious in females than in males [4].…”

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Gender difference in N170 elicited under oddball task

Choi

Egashira

Takakura

et al. 2015

J Physiol Anthropol

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“…The observation of faster RTs in the behind condition compared with the front condition suggests that the holistic information of faces is critical for the judgment of face gender. To test the possible influence of the subjects’ gender on face perception (Cellerino et al, 2004; Sun et al, 2010), we also analyzed the RT data by combining the factor of stereoscopic depth (front/behind) with that of the subjects’ gender (male/female). Two-way ANOVA showed a nonsignificant main effect of the subjects’ gender ( F (1, 4) = 0.599, P = 0.482), indicating that the subjects’ gender did not affect the RTs in the present study.…”

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A critical role of holistic processing in face gender perception

Yokoyama

Noguchi

Tachibana

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Whether face gender perception is processed by encoding holistic (whole) or featural (parts) information is a controversial issue. Although neuroimaging studies have identified brain regions related to face gender perception, the temporal dynamics of this process remain under debate. Here, we identified the mechanism and temporal dynamics of face gender perception. We used stereoscopic depth manipulation to create two conditions: the front and behind condition. In the front condition, facial patches were presented stereoscopically in front of the occluder and participants perceived them as disjoint parts (featural cues). In the behind condition, facial patches were presented stereoscopically behind the occluder and were amodally completed and unified in a coherent face (holistic cues). We performed three behavioral experiments and one electroencephalography experiment, and compared the results of the front and behind conditions. We found faster reaction times (RTs) in the behind condition compared with the front, and observed priming effects and aftereffects only in the behind condition. Moreover, the EEG experiment revealed that face gender perception is processed in the relatively late phase of visual recognition (200–285 ms). Our results indicate that holistic information is critical for face gender perception, and that this process occurs with a relatively late latency.

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Sex differences in face gender recognition: An event-related potential study

Cited by 43 publications

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Electrophysiological evidence for different effects of working memory load on interference control in adolescents than adults

Electrophysiological evidence for different effects of working memory load on interference control in adolescents than adults

Gender difference in N170 elicited under oddball task

A critical role of holistic processing in face gender perception

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