Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Face exploration dynamics differentiate men and women

Coutrot, Antoine; Binetti, Nicola; Harrison, Charlotte; Mareschal, Isabelle; Johnston, Alan

Authors

Antoine Coutrot

Nicola Binetti

Charlotte Harrison

Isabelle Mareschal

ALAN JOHNSTON Alan.Johnston@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology



Abstract

The human face is central to our everyday social interactions. Recent studies have shown that while gazing at faces, each one of us has a particular eyescanning pattern, highly stable across time. Although variables such as culture or personality have been shown to modulate gaze behavior, we still don’t know what shapes these idiosyncrasies. Moreover, most previous observations rely on static analyses of small-sized eyeposition data sets averaged across time. Here, we probe the temporal dynamics of gaze to explore what information can be extracted about the observers and what is being observed. Controlling for any stimuli effect, we demonstrate that among many individual characteristics, the gender of both the participant (gazer) and the person being observed (actor) are the factors that most influence gaze patterns during face exploration.We record and exploit the largest set of eyetracking data (405 participants, 58 nationalities) from participants watching videos of another person. Using novel data-mining techniques, we show that female gazers follow a much more exploratory scanning strategy than males. Moreover, female gazers watching female actresses look more at the eye on the left side. These results have strong implications in every field using gazebased models from computer vision to clinical psychology.

Citation

Coutrot, A., Binetti, N., Harrison, C., Mareschal, I., & Johnston, A. (2016). Face exploration dynamics differentiate men and women. Journal of Vision, 16(14), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1167/16.14.16

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 14, 2016
Publication Date Nov 28, 2016
Deposit Date Mar 1, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Vision
Electronic ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 14
Article Number 16
DOI https://doi.org/10.1167/16.14.16
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/826809
Publisher URL http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2587793

Files





You might also like



Downloadable Citations