SynthesisSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases.
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- Recognizability Affects the Processing of Facial Gender Information.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Img2EEG: A Scalable and Interpretable Encoding Framework for Simulating Human EEG Responses to Visual Inputs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Hemispheric segregation is evident in early perception, not just higher cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effect of altitude on the spatiotemporal signal characteristics of inversion face recognition.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Non-right-handedness, male sex, and regional, network-specific, ventral occipito-temporal anomalous lateralization in adults with a history of reading disability.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2025Article
- Music literacy improves reading skills via bilateral orthographic development.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effective connectivity of working memory performance: a DCM study of MEG data.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emojis Are Comprehended Better than Facial Expressions, by Male Participants.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Event-related brain potential markers of visual and auditory perception: A useful tool for brain computer interface systems.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
A well-established neuroimaging literature predicts a right-sided asymmetry in the activation of face-devoted areas such as the fusiform gyrus (FG) and its resulting M/N170 response during face processing. However, the face-related response sometimes appears to be bihemispheric. A few studies have argued that bilaterality depended on the sex composition of the sample. To shed light on this matter, two meta-analyses were conducted starting from a large initial database of 250 ERP (Event-related potentials)/MEG (Magnetoencephalography) peer-reviewed scientific articles. Paper coverage was from 1985 to 2020. Thirty-four articles met the inclusion criteria of a sufficiently large and balanced sample size with strictly right-handed and healthy participants aged 18-35 years and N170 measurements in response to neutral front view faces at left and right occipito/temporal sites. The data of 817 male (n = 414) and female (n = 403) healthy adults were subjected to repeated-measures analyses of variance. The results of statistical analyses from the data of 17 independent studies (from Asia, Europe and America) seem to robustly indicate the presence of a sex difference in the way the two cerebral hemispheres process facial information in humans, with a marked right-sided asymmetry of the bioelectrical activity in males and a bilateral or left-sided activity in females.
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