Awasthi Bhuvanesh
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of GlasgowGlasgow, UK; Epistemic ConsultantsNew Delhi, India.
Front Psychol. 2017 Mar 10;8:338. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00338. eCollection 2017.
In the context of objectification and violence, little attention has been paid to the perception neuroscience of how the human brain perceives bodies and objectifies them. Various studies point to how external cues such as appearance and attire could play a key role in encouraging objectification, dehumanization and the denial of agency. Reviewing new experimental findings across several areas of research, it seems that common threads run through issues of clothing, sexual objectification, body perception, dehumanization, and assault. Collating findings from several different lines of research, this article reviews additional evidence from cognitive and neural dynamics of person perception (body and face perception processes) that predict downstream social behavior. Specifically, new findings demonstrate cognitive processing of sexualized female bodies as object-like, a crucial aspect of dehumanized percept devoid of agency and personhood. Sexual violence is a consequence of a dehumanized perception of female bodies that aggressors acquire through their exposure and interpretation of body images. Integrating these findings and identifying triggers for sexual violence may help develop remedial measures and inform law enforcement processes and policy makers alike.
在物化和暴力的背景下，人类大脑如何感知身体并将其物化的感知神经科学很少受到关注。各种研究指出，诸如外貌和着装等外部线索在鼓励物化、非人化和否定能动性方面可能起关键作用。回顾多个研究领域的新实验结果，似乎服装、性物化、身体感知、非人化和攻击等问题存在共同线索。整理来自几个不同研究方向的结果，本文回顾了来自人物感知（身体和面部感知过程）的认知和神经动力学的更多证据，这些证据预测了下游的社会行为。具体而言，新发现表明，对女性身体的性化认知被视为类似物体，这是缺乏能动性和人格的非人化认知的一个关键方面。性暴力是攻击者通过接触和解读身体形象而获得的对女性身体的非人化认知的结果。整合这些发现并确定性暴力的触发因素，可能有助于制定补救措施，并为执法程序和政策制定者提供参考。
