Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2010;17(4):406-21. doi: 10.1080/13825580903420153. Epub 2010 Jan 14.
The present study investigated the influence of wrinkles on facial age judgments. In Experiment 1, preadolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults made categorical age judgments for male and female faces. The qualitative (type of wrinkle) and quantitative (density of wrinkles and depth of furrows) contributions of wrinkles were analyzed. Results indicated that the greater the number of wrinkles and the depth of furrows, the older a face was rated. The roles of the gender of the face and the age of the participants were discussed. In Experiment 2, participants performed relative age judgments by comparing pairs of faces. Results revealed that the number of wrinkles had more influence on the perceived facial age than the type of wrinkle. A MDS analysis showed the main dimensions on which participants based their judgments, namely, the number of wrinkles and the depth of furrows. We conclude that the quantitative component is more likely to increase perceived facial age. Nevertheless, other variables, such as the gender of the face and the age of the participants, also seem to be involved in the age estimation process.
本研究探讨了皱纹对面部年龄判断的影响。在实验 1 中，青春期前儿童、年轻人和中年人对男性和女性的面部进行了分类年龄判断。分析了皱纹的定性（皱纹类型）和定量（皱纹密度和皱纹深度）贡献。结果表明，皱纹越多、皱纹越深，面部年龄评价越高。讨论了面部性别和参与者年龄的作用。在实验 2 中，参与者通过比较一对对的脸进行相对年龄判断。结果表明，皱纹数量对面部感知年龄的影响大于皱纹类型。MDS 分析显示了参与者进行判断的主要维度，即皱纹数量和皱纹深度。我们得出的结论是，定量成分更有可能增加感知的面部年龄。然而，其他变量，如面部的性别和参与者的年龄，似乎也参与了年龄估计过程。
