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Face exploration dynamics differentiate men and women

Journal of Vision, ISSN: 1534-7362, Vol: 16, Issue: 14, Page: 16
2016
  • 63
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 130
    Captures
  • 6
    Mentions
  • 48
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    63
  • Captures
    130
  • Mentions
    6
    • News Mentions
      5
      • 5
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1
  • Social Media
    48
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      48
      • Facebook
        48

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Men, Women Absorb Visual Information In Different Ways: Study Suggests Gender Differences Affects Understanding Of Visual Cues

There are differences in the way men and women observe visual information, reported a team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London. From the way the people scan the faces, it is possible to tell if the participant was a male or a female with accuracy of 80 percent, noted the researchers.

Article Description

The human face is central to our everyday social interactions. Recent studies have shown that while gazing at faces, each one of us has a particular eyescanning pattern, highly stable across time. Although variables such as culture or personality have been shown to modulate gaze behavior, we still don't know what shapes these idiosyncrasies. Moreover, most previous observations rely on static analyses of small-sized eyeposition data sets averaged across time. Here, we probe the temporal dynamics of gaze to explore what information can be extracted about the observers and what is being observed. Controlling for any stimuli effect, we demonstrate that among many individual characteristics, the gender of both the participant (gazer) and the person being observed (actor) are the factors that most influence gaze patterns during face exploration.We record and exploit the largest set of eyetracking data (405 participants, 58 nationalities) from participants watching videos of another person. Using novel data-mining techniques, we show that female gazers follow a much more exploratory scanning strategy than males. Moreover, female gazers watching female actresses look more at the eye on the left side. These results have strong implications in every field using gazebased models from computer vision to clinical psychology.

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