Eye movements to natural images as a function of sex and personality.

ABSTRACT: Women and men are different. As humans are highly visual animals, these differences should be reflected in the pattern of eye movements they make when interacting with the world. We examined fixation distributions of 52 women and men while viewing 80 natural images and found systematic differences in their spatial and temporal characteristics. The most striking of these was that women looked away and usually below many objects of interest, particularly when rating images in terms of their potency. We also found reliable differences correlated with the images' semantic content, the observers' personality, and how the images were semantically evaluated. Information theoretic techniques showed that many of these differences increased with viewing time. These effects were not small: the fixati

SUBMITTER: Mercer Moss FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3511485 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature