Title :

How Do Women and Men Look at the Past? Large Scanpath in Women during Autobiographical Retrieval-A Preliminary Study

Author(s) :

El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes = Nantes University Hospital [CHU Nantes]
Institut universitaire de France [IUF]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire [Auteur]
Guerrero Sastoque, Lina [Auteur]
Lenoble, Quentin [Auteur]
Lille Neurosciences & Cognition (LilNCog) - U 1172
Moustafa, Ahmed A. [Auteur]
Chapelet, Guillaume [Auteur]
Sarda, Elisa [Auteur]
Ndobo, André [Auteur]

Journal title :

Brain Sciences

Abbreviated title :

Brain Sci

Volume number :

13

Pages :

439

Publisher :

MDPI

Publication date :

2023-03-03

ISSN :

2076-3425

English keyword(s) :

autobiographical memory
eye movement
gender
gender differences

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

While research has consistently demonstrated how autobiographical memory triggers visual exploration, prior studies did not investigate gender differences in this domain. We thus compared eye movement between women and men ...
Show more >While research has consistently demonstrated how autobiographical memory triggers visual exploration, prior studies did not investigate gender differences in this domain. We thus compared eye movement between women and men while performing an autobiographical retrieval task. We invited 35 women and 35 men to retrieve autobiographical memories while their gaze was monitored by an eye tracker. We further investigated gender differences in eye movement and autobiographical specificity, that is, the ability to retrieve detailed memories. The analysis demonstrated shorter fixations, larger duration and amplitude of saccades, and higher autobiographical specificity in women than in men. The significant gender differences in eye movement disappeared after controlling for autobiographical specificity. When retrieving autobiographical memory, female participants generated a large scan with short fixation and high saccade amplitude, while male participants increased their fixation duration and showed poorer gaze scan. The large saccades in women during autobiographical retrieval may constitute an exploratory gaze behavior enabling better autobiographical memory functioning, which is reflected by the larger number of autobiographical details retrieved compared to men.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
Inserm
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Lille Neurosciences & Cognition (LilNCog) - U 1172

Research team(s) :

Troubles cognitifs dégénératifs et vasculaires

Submission date :

2024-01-15T23:16:27Z
2024-11-29T16:07:19Z