Investigating the Influence of Biological Sex on the Behavioral and Neural Basis of Face Recognition.

ABSTRACT: There is interest in understanding the influence of biological factors, like sex, on the organization of brain function. We investigated the influence of biological sex on the behavioral and neural basis of face recognition in healthy, young adults. In behavior, there were no sex differences on the male Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT)+ or the female CFMT+ (that we created) and no own-gender bias (OGB) in either group. We evaluated the functional topography of ventral stream organization by measuring the magnitude and functional neural size of 16 individually defined face-, two object-, and two place-related regions bilaterally. There were no sex differences in any of these measures of neural function in any of the regions of interest (ROIs) or in group level comparisons. These findings r

SUBMITTER: Scherf KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423736 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature