ABSTRACT

Previous studies have found a female advantage in face recognition ability. The present study sought to replicate this finding in a large sample of 343 Danish psychology students using the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) and the Cambridge Face Perception Test (CFPT). Furthermore, we examined whether a potential female advantage could be explained by more efficient holistic processing indexed by the face inversion effect: a disproportionately larger effect of inversion on face than object processing (dFIE). Here we used the Cambridge Car Memory Test (CCMT) as the control task with cars as the object category. In accordance with previous studies, the results showed a female advantage in face processing both on the CFMT and the CFPT. No gender difference in the dFIE was found, however, indicating that more efficient holistic processing does not underlie the female advantage in face recognition.

摘要

此前的研究发现，女性在人脸识别能力方面具有优势。本研究试图使用剑桥面部记忆测试 (CFMT) 和剑桥面部感知测试 (CFPT) 在 343 名丹麦心理学学生的大样本中复制这一发现。此外，我们检查了潜在的女性优势是否可以通过更有效的整体处理来解释，该处理由面部反转效应索引：倒置对面部的影响比对象处理 (dFIE) 大得多。在这里，我们使用剑桥汽车记忆测试 (CCMT) 作为控制任务，以汽车为对象类别。根据之前的研究，结果显示女性在 CFMT 和 CFPT 的面部处理方面具有优势。然而，在 dFIE 中没有发现性别差异，