Gender differences in memory processing: Evidence from event-related potentials to faces

Guillem, François; Mograss, Melodee

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2004.08.026

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“…Obviously, it is of fundamental importance to balance observers' sex in face-perception tasks (especially when sex as a facial characteristic is involved) and to analyze the data of male and female participants separately. This is even more indicated in view of the growing evidence in the recent literature for sex-related differences in performance (see, e.g., Guillem & Mograss, 2005;Lewin & Herlitz, 2002;O'Toole et al, 1996;Rehnman & Herlitz, 2007), behavior (e.g., the results of this study), and the processing of face stimuli (in terms of brain activity; e.g., Guntekin & Basar, 2007;Kranz & Ishai, 2006).…”

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“…A female advantage for recognizing faces (Guillem & Mograss, 2005;Lewin & Herlitz, 2002;Rehnman & Herlitz, 2007) and classifing them by sex (O'Toole, Peterson, & Deffenbacher, 1996) has been shown, as have differences in adaptation to the sex of faces depending on the observers' own sex (Webster, Kaping, Mizokami, & Duhamel, 2004). We therefore compared the data of these two subgroups of participants in order to correlate potential performance differences with different looking behaviors in male and female observers.…”

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Gaze behavior in face comparison: The roles of sex, task, and symmetry

Armann

Bülthoff

2009

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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Knowing where people look on a face provides an objective insight into the information entering the visual system and into cognitive processes involved in face perception. In the present study, we recorded eye movements of human participants while they compared two faces presented simultaneously. Observers‘ viewing behavior and performance was examined in two tasks of parametrically varying difficulty, using two types of face stimuli (sex morphs and identity morphs). The frequency, duration, and temporal sequence of fixations on previously defined areas of interest in the faces were analyzed. As was expected, viewing behavior and performance varied with difficulty. Interestingly, observers compared predominantly the inner halves of the face stimulia result inconsistent with the general left-hemiface bias reported for single faces. Furthermore, fixation patterns and performance differed between tasks, independently of stimulus type. Moreover, we found differences in male and female participants‘ viewing behaviors, but only when the sex of the face stimuli was task relevant

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Gaze behavior in face comparison: The roles of sex, task, and symmetry

Armann

Bülthoff

2009

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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“…Sex differences in the brain are well established (Aartsen et al, 2004;Guillem and Mograss, 2005;Maitland et al, 2004) so it would certainly be interesting to look at a male population.…”

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Genome-wide Scan for Prospective Memory Suggests Linkage to Chromosome 12q22

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Prospective memory slips (forgetting to do something) are as part of everyday memory failure as retrospective complaints (forgetting a past event). The extent to which genes influence prospective and retrospective memory is so far unclear. This study aims to quantify the relative genetic and environmental influences on such memory slips and seeks to identify QTL's with the first genome-wide scan for such traits. A classic twin design was implemented: comprising 896 monozygotic (MZ) and 1008 dizygotic (DZ) female twin pairs aged between 19 and 85 (mean age, 51) participated. The prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire (PRMQ) consists of 16 items, eight asking about prospective memory failures and eight concerning retrospective failures. Heritability for prospective memory and retrospective memory were found to be 44% and 41%, respectively. A genome- wide scan of 489 female DZ twin pairs suggested a QTL on chromosome 12q22 for prospective memory (LOD 2.76, empirical p-value 0.0006). Within this QTL lies an obvious candidate-the SCAD gene. These results suggest that large-scale gene discovery studies are possible with self-report memory questionnaires.

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“…For instance, faces serve as retrieval cues for qualities of an individual that are relevant to social exchange (Nachson, 1995;Riggio, 1992). However, there are individual differences in face recognition speed and accuracy (Guillem & Mograss, 2005;Hall, Hutton, & Morgan, 2010;Herlitz & Rehnman, 2008;Herlitz & Yonker, 2002;Hofmann, Suvak, & Litz, 2006;Lewin & Herlitz, 2002;Lewin, Wolgers, & Herlitz, 2001;McBain, Norton, & Chen, 2009;Rehnman & Herlitz, 2007;Vuilleumier, George, Lister, Armony, & Driver, 2005), some of which have relatively serious consequences. Impaired episodic memory of faces is seen in disorders such as schizophrenia (Calkins, Gur, Ragland, & Gur, 2005;Silver et al, 2006), autism (Weigelt, Koldewyn, & Kanwisher, 2012), and prosopagnosia (Kress & Daum, 2003), and is part of a general episodic memory disorder in Alzheimer's disease (Hawley & Cherry, 2004;Plaza, López-Crespo, Antúnez, Fuentes, & Estévez, 2012).…”

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