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Subject: Gdzie gapi się facet? Na twarz!
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Ukryj nagłówki
Nieprawdą jest, że mężczyźni są bardziej zboczeni.
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http://www.scientificblogging.com/news/gender_and_po
rn_where_men_and_women_look_first
A study funded by the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN)
analyzed the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual
photographs, and the result was not what one typically might expect.
The finding, reported in Hormones and Behavior, confirmed the hypothesis of
a previous study (Stephen Hamann and Kim Wallen, et al., 2004) that
reported men and women showed different patterns of brain activity when
viewing sexual stimuli. The present study examined sex differences in
attention by employing eye-tracking technology that pinpoints individual
attention to different elements of each picture such as the face or body
parts.
"Men looked at the female face much more than women, and both looked at the
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genitals comparably," said lead author Heather Rupp, Ph.D., a fellow at The
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Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana
University, who conducted the study in partnership with Kim Wallen, Ph.D.,
a Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroendocrinology at Emory
University and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
"The eye-tracking data suggested what women paid most attention to was
dependent upon their hormonal state. Women using hormonal contraceptives
looked more at the genitals, while women who were not using hormonal
contraceptives paid more attention to contextual elements of the
photographs," Rupp said. Although it is commonly assumed males have more
interest in visual sexual stimuli, researchers are working to figure out
what characteristics are important to men and women in their evaluations of
sexual stimuli.
The answer may lie within a small section of the brain called the amygdala,
which is important in the processing of emotional information. In Dr.
Hamann and Wallen's previous fMRI study, men showed more activation in the
amygdala in response to sexual vs. neutral stimuli than did women. From the
fMRI study alone, the cause of the increased activity was unclear, but Rupp
and Wallen's study suggests the possibility that higher amygdala activation
in men may be related to their increased attention to faces in sexual
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photographs.
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