Saylik Rahmi, Raman Evren, Szameitat Andre J
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Art and Science, Mus Alparslan University, Mus, Turkey.
Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 29;9:1072. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01072. eCollection 2018.
It is proposed that emotional and cognitive functions may be differentiated based on sex. However, it is still unknown whether this assumption could be generalized for all emotional faces and working memory (WM) functions. To examine this, 50 females, and 60 males performed an emotion recognition task, consisting of a series of emotional faces as well as three working memory tasks from Cambridge Neuropsychological test battery (CANTAB); namely, spatial working memory (SWM), stocking of Cambridge (SOC), and intra/extradimensional shifts tasks (IED). The results found that females had faster response times in recognition of both positive and negative faces as compared to males. Furthermore, it was observed that while females were better on SWM task processing, males performed better on IED and four move SOC tasks, illustrating that processing of WM components may differentiate by sex. It has been concluded that emotional and cognitive functions are indeed sensitive to sex differences.
有人提出，情绪和认知功能可能存在性别差异。然而，这种假设是否适用于所有情绪面孔和工作记忆（WM）功能仍不清楚。为了对此进行研究，50名女性和60名男性进行了一项情绪识别任务，该任务包括一系列情绪面孔以及来自剑桥神经心理测试组（CANTAB）的三项工作记忆任务；即空间工作记忆（SWM）、剑桥库存（SOC）和维度内/维度间转换任务（IED）。结果发现，与男性相比，女性识别正面和负面面孔的反应时间更快。此外，研究还观察到，虽然女性在SWM任务处理方面表现更好，但男性在IED和四步SOC任务上表现更好，这表明WM成分的处理可能存在性别差异。研究得出结论，情绪和认知功能确实对性别差异敏感。
