Own-gender bias in facial feature recognition yields sex differences in holistic face processing.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Female observers in their luteal cycle phase exhibit a bias towards a detail-oriented rather than global visuospatial processing style that is well-documented across cognitive domains such as pattern recognition, navigation, and object location memory. Holistic face processing involves an integration of global patterns and local parts into a cohesive percept and might thus be susceptible to the influence of sex and cycle-related processing styles. This study aims to investigate potential sex differences in the part-whole effect as a measure a of holistic face processing and explores possible relationships with sex hormone levels.

Methods

147 participants (74 male, 51 luteal, 22 non-luteal) performed a part-whole face recognition task while being controlled for c

SUBMITTER: Hausinger T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11841357 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature