期刊
BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 64-67出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0564
关键词
modularity; social cognition; attention; face; gender differences
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [R03 MH066259, MH066259] Funding Source: Medline
Gaze cuing, the tendency to shift attention in the direction other individuals are looking, is hypothesized to depend on a distinct neural module. One expectation of such a module is that information processing should be encapsulated within it. Here, we tested whether familiarity, a type of social knowledge, penetrates the neural circuits governing gaze cuing. Male and female subjects viewed the face of an adult male looking left or right and then pressed a keypad to indicate the location of a target appearing randomly left or right. Responses were faster for targets congruent with gaze direction. Moreover, gaze cuing was stronger in females than males. Contrary to the modularity hypothesis, familiarity enhanced gaze cuing, but only in females. Sex differences in the effects of familiarity on gaze cuing may reflect greater adaptive significance of social information for females than males.
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