Women better than men when it comes to identifying emotions.Byline: ANI Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): Women outperform men when it comes to distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, says a new study. The research has been published in the online version of the journal Neuropsychologia. As part of the investigation, Olivier Collignon and a team from the UniversitAe de MontrAeal Centre de recherche re·cher·ché adj. 1. Uncommon; rare. 2. Exquisite; choice. 3. Overrefined; forced. 4. Pretentious; overblown. en neuropsychologie et cognition (CERNEC CERNEC Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (French) ) demonstrated that women are better than men at processing auditory, visual and audiovisual emotions. To reach the conclusion, the UniversitAe de MontrAeal researchers hired actors and actresses to simulate fear and disgust. "Facial movements have been shown to play an important role in the perception of an emotion's intensity as well as stimulate different parts of the brain used in the treatment of such information," says Collignon, who also works as a researcher at the UniversitAe catholique de Louvain's Institute of Neuroscience in Belgium. As part of their study, the research team exposed subjects to bimodal bi·mod·al adj. 1. Having or exhibiting two contrasting modes or forms: "American supermarket shopping shows bimodal behavior stimuli or the facial expressions of live actors combined with recordings of human emotions. wenty-three men and 23 women, aged 18 to 43, were tested and none had any recorded history Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1] It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. of neurological or psychiatric problems. Participants were asked to quickly categorize emotions they identified as fear or disgust. Emotions were based on auditory stimuli auditory stimuli, n.pl in dentistry, the irregularities or deposits on the surface of a tooth that may be detected by ear of both patient and clinician during examination and probing. , visual stimuli, followed by compatible audio-visual stimuli and contradictory audio-visual stimuli (i.e. a face that expressed fear with a voice that expressed disgust). The study found that women were superior in completing assessments and responded quicker when emotions were portrayed by a female rather than a male actor.ompared to men, women were faster at processing facial and multisensory multisensory /mul·ti·sen·so·ry/ (mul?te-sen´sah-re) capable of responding to more than one kind of sensory input, as certain neurons in the central nervous system. expressions. "The aim of such a study isn't to prove the superiority of men or women - contrarily to what some people believe," says Collignon. "These gender studies are necessary for researchers to better understand mental diseases which have a strong gender component. That means they affect men and women differently. Autism autism (ô`tĭzəm), developmental disability resulting from a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain. It is characterized by the abnormal development of communication skills, social skills, and reasoning. is a good example, because it affects more men than women and one of its features is the difficulty in recognizing emotions," the expert added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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