a Faculty of Psychology , University El Bosque.
b Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychobiology , IDOCAL, University of Valencia.
J Sex Res. 2019 Jan;56(1):85-101. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1372353. Epub 2017 Oct 13.
Visual attention patterns measured with eye-tracking techniques provide indirect clues about sexual response. This study aimed to test the category specificity of sexual responses to stimuli varying in gender and age by evaluating both early and late attention of gynephilic and androphilic men and women. We simultaneously presented sexually preferred and nonpreferred stimuli and measured time to first fixation and total duration of fixation on four areas of interest: entire body, then face, chest, and pelvis. Androphilic women's early attention patterns were nonspecific, whereas gynephilic women and both groups of men showed a category-specific pattern for the entire body. In contrast, all groups showed gender-specific patterns of late attention for all areas of interest. We also found support for age specificity of early and late visual attention in all four groups, with greater attention to adult than child stimuli. This study supports the usefulness of a competing stimulus eye-tracking paradigm as a method to examine gender specificity in gynephilic women and androphilic and gynephilic men, and as a measure of age specificity in gynephilic and androphilic men and women.
利用眼动追踪技术测量的视觉注意力模式为性反应提供了间接线索。本研究旨在通过评估异性恋男性和女性对不同性别和年龄的刺激的早期和晚期注意，来测试性反应的类别特异性。我们同时呈现了性偏好和非偏好的刺激，并测量了首次注视时间和对四个兴趣区域（整个身体、面部、胸部和骨盆）的总注视时间：异性恋女性的早期注意模式是非特异性的，而异性恋女性和两组男性对整个身体都表现出了特定类别的模式。相比之下，所有组在所有兴趣区域的晚期注意力都表现出了性别特异性模式。我们还在所有四个组中发现了对早期和晚期视觉注意力的年龄特异性的支持，对成年刺激的注意力大于对儿童刺激的注意力。本研究支持使用竞争刺激眼动追踪范式作为一种方法来检查异性恋女性和异性恋和同性恋男性的性别特异性，以及作为一种测量同性恋和异性恋男性和女性的年龄特异性的方法。
