Alexander Gerianne M
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77845, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2006 Dec;35(6):699-709. doi: 10.1007/s10508-006-9038-2.
Eye-tracking technology was used to monitor eye-movements in 64 adults (age range, 18-22 years) during simultaneous presentation of "masculine" and "feminine" toys. Women and men who showed more visual fixations on male-typical toys compared to female-typical toys had significantly better targeting ability and smaller (i.e., more masculine) digit ratios, a putative marker of prenatal androgen levels. In contrast, individuals with visual preferences for female-typical or male-typical toys did not differ in mental rotations ability and in their retrospective reports of childhood gender-linked activities. The finding that targeting ability and digit ratios varied according to visual preferences for gender-linked toys suggests that prenatal androgens promote enduring preferences for male-typical objects and indicate further that some gender-linked traits vary according to the direction of a visual preference for gender-linked toys. Visual preferences derived from eye-tracking, therefore, may be a useful supplement to current measures of psychosexual differentiation in hormone-behavior research, particularly because eye-movements are not dependent on verbal abilities or subjective evaluations of behavior.
在同时展示“男性化”和“女性化”玩具的过程中，运用眼动追踪技术对64名成年人（年龄范围为18至22岁）的眼球运动进行监测。与女性化玩具相比，对男性化玩具有更多视觉注视的女性和男性具有显著更好的目标定位能力以及更小（即更具男性化特征）的指长比，指长比被认为是产前雄激素水平的一个标志。相比之下，对女性化或男性化玩具有视觉偏好的个体在心理旋转能力以及对童年与性别相关活动的回顾性报告方面并无差异。目标定位能力和指长比根据对与性别相关玩具的视觉偏好而有所不同这一发现表明，产前雄激素会促进对男性化物品的持久偏好，并且进一步表明一些与性别相关的特征会根据对与性别相关玩具的视觉偏好方向而有所不同。因此，通过眼动追踪得出的视觉偏好可能是当前激素 - 行为研究中性心理分化测量方法的一个有用补充，特别是因为眼球运动不依赖于语言能力或对行为的主观评价。
