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  1. Book ; Online: Bridging Gaps Between Sex and Gender in Neurosciences

    Duchesne, Annie / Lai, Meng-Chuan / Einstein, Gillian / Pletzer, Belinda / Pavlova, Marina A.

    2020  

    Keywords Science: general issues ; Neurosciences ; sex ; gender ; gonadal hormones ; epigenetic ; cognition ; stress ; pain ; brain injury
    Size 1 electronic resource (180 pages)
    Publisher Frontiers Media SA
    Document type Book ; Online
    Note English ; Open Access
    HBZ-ID HT021230386
    ISBN 9782889638659 ; 2889638650
    Database ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Article ; Online: Reading language of the eyes.

    Pavlova, Marina A / Sokolov, Arseny A

    Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

    2022  Volume 140, Page(s) 104755

    Abstract: The need for assessment of social skills in clinical and neurotypical populations has led to the widespread, and still increasing use of the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test' (RMET) developed more than two decades ago by Simon Baron-Cohen and ... ...

    Abstract The need for assessment of social skills in clinical and neurotypical populations has led to the widespread, and still increasing use of the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test' (RMET) developed more than two decades ago by Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues for evaluation of social cognition in autism. By analyzing most recent clinical and brain imaging data, we illuminate a set of factors decisive for using the RMET. Converging evidence indicates: (i) In neurotypical individuals, RMET scores are tightly correlated with other social skills (empathy, emotional intelligence, and body language reading); (ii) The RMET assesses recognition of facial affect, but also heavily relies on receptive language skills, semantic knowledge, and memory; (iii) RMET performance is underwritten by the large-scale ensembles of neural networks inside and well-outside the social brain; (iv) The RMET is limited in its capacity to differentiate between neuropsychiatric conditions as well as between stages and severity of a single disorder, though it reliably distinguishes individuals with altered social cognition or elevated pathological traits from neurotypical persons; (v) Merely gender (as a social construct) rather than neurobiological sex influences performance on the RMET; (vi) RMET scores do not substantially decline in healthy aging, and they are higher with higher education level, cognitive abilities, literacy, and mental well-being; (vii) Accuracy on the RMET, and engagement of the social brain, are greater when emotions are expressed and recognized by individuals with similar cultural/ethnic background. Further research is required to better inform usage of the RMET as a tool for swift and reliable examination of social cognition. In light of comparable visual input from the RMET images and faces covered by masks due to COVID-19 regulations, the analysis is of value for keeping efficient social interaction during the current pandemic, in particular, in professional settings related to social communication.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; Cognition ; Emotions ; Empathy ; Humans ; Intelligence Tests ; Theory of Mind
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 282464-4
    ISSN 1873-7528 ; 0149-7634
    ISSN (online) 1873-7528
    ISSN 0149-7634
    DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104755
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  3. Article ; Online: Reading Covered Faces.

    Pavlova, Marina A / Sokolov, Arseny A

    Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

    2021  Volume 32, Issue 2, Page(s) 249–265

    Abstract: Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy people, but particularly challenging for individuals with neuropsychiatric ... ...

    Abstract Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy people, but particularly challenging for individuals with neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Au fait research on reading covered faces reveals that: 1) wearing masks hampers facial affect recognition, though it leaves reliable inferring basic emotional expressions; 2) by buffering facial affect, masks lead to narrowing of emotional spectrum and dampen veridical evaluation of counterparts; 3) masks may affect perceived face attractiveness; 4) covered (either by masks or other veils) faces have a certain signal function introducing perceptual biases and prejudices; 5) reading covered faces is gender- and age-specific, being more challenging for males and more variable even in healthy aging; 6) the hampering effects of masks on social cognition occur over the globe; and 7) reading covered faces is likely to be supported by the large-scale assemblies of the neural circuits far beyond the social brain. Challenges and limitations of ongoing research and parallels to the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test are assessed. Clarification of how masks affect face reading in the real world, where we deal with dynamic faces and have entrée to additional valuable social signals such as body language, as well as the specificity of neural networks underlying reading covered faces calls for further tailored research.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19/prevention & control ; Emotions ; Humans ; Male ; Masks ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Recognition, Psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1077450-6
    ISSN 1460-2199 ; 1047-3211
    ISSN (online) 1460-2199
    ISSN 1047-3211
    DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhab311
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  4. Article ; Online: Dynamic brain communication underwriting face pareidolia.

    Romagnano, Valentina / Kubon, Julian / Sokolov, Alexander N / Fallgatter, Andreas J / Braun, Christoph / Pavlova, Marina A

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    2024  Volume 121, Issue 16, Page(s) e2401196121

    Abstract: Face pareidolia is a tendency to seeing faces in nonface images that reflects high tuning to a face scheme. Yet, studies of the brain networks underwriting face pareidolia are scarce. Here, we examined the time course and dynamic topography of gamma ... ...

    Abstract Face pareidolia is a tendency to seeing faces in nonface images that reflects high tuning to a face scheme. Yet, studies of the brain networks underwriting face pareidolia are scarce. Here, we examined the time course and dynamic topography of gamma oscillatory neuromagnetic activity while administering a task with nonface images resembling a face. Images were presented either with canonical orientation or with display inversion that heavily impedes face pareidolia. At early processing stages, the peaks in gamma activity (40 to 45 Hz) to images either triggering or not face pareidolia originate mainly from the right medioventral and lateral occipital cortices, rostral and caudal cuneus gyri, and medial superior occipital gyrus. Yet, the difference occurred at later processing stages in the high-frequency range of 80 to 85 Hz over a set of the areas constituting the social brain. The findings speak rather for a relatively late neural network playing a key role in face pareidolia. Strikingly, a cutting-edge analysis of brain connectivity unfolding over time reveals mutual feedforward and feedback intra- and interhemispheric communication not only within the social brain but also within the extended large-scale network of down- and upstream regions. In particular, the superior temporal sulcus and insula strongly engage in communication with other brain regions either as signal transmitters or recipients throughout the whole processing of face-pareidolia images.
    MeSH term(s) Brain Mapping ; Face ; Brain ; Occipital Lobe ; Temporal Lobe
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 209104-5
    ISSN 1091-6490 ; 0027-8424
    ISSN (online) 1091-6490
    ISSN 0027-8424
    DOI 10.1073/pnas.2401196121
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  5. Article: Emotion Science in the Twenty-First Century. Time, Sex, and Behavior in Emotion Science: Over and Above.

    Pavlova, Marina A

    Frontiers in psychology

    2017  Volume 8, Page(s) 1211

    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-07-21
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01211
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  6. Article ; Online: Do subtle cultural differences sculpt face pareidolia?

    Romagnano, Valentina / Sokolov, Alexander N / Fallgatter, Andreas J / Pavlova, Marina A

    Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)

    2023  Volume 9, Issue 1, Page(s) 28

    Abstract: Face tuning to non-face images such as shadows or grilled toasts is termed face pareidolia. Face-pareidolia images represent a valuable tool for investigation of social cognition in mental disorders. Here we examined (i) whether, and, if so, how face ... ...

    Abstract Face tuning to non-face images such as shadows or grilled toasts is termed face pareidolia. Face-pareidolia images represent a valuable tool for investigation of social cognition in mental disorders. Here we examined (i) whether, and, if so, how face pareidolia is affected by subtle cultural differences; and (ii) whether this impact is modulated by gender. With this purpose in mind, females and males from Northern Italy were administered a set of Face-n-Thing images, photographs of objects such as houses or waves to a varying degree resembling a face. Participants were presented with pareidolia images with canonical upright orientation and display inversion that heavily affects face pareidolia. In a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm, beholders had to indicate whether each image resembled a face. The outcome was compared with the findings obtained in the Southwest of Germany. With upright orientation, neither cultural background nor gender affected face pareidolia. As expected, display inversion generally mired face pareidolia. Yet, while display inversion led to a drastic reduction of face impression in German males as compared to females, in Italians, no gender differences were found. In a nutshell, subtle cultural differences do not sculpt face pareidolia, but instead affect face impression in a gender-specific way under unusual viewing conditions. Clarification of the origins of these effects requires tailored brain imaging work. Implications for transcultural psychiatry, in particular, for schizophrenia research, are highlighted and discussed.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-04
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3133210-9
    ISSN 2754-6993 ; 2754-6993
    ISSN (online) 2754-6993
    ISSN 2754-6993
    DOI 10.1038/s41537-023-00355-y
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  7. Article ; Online: Sex and gender affect the social brain: Beyond simplicity.

    Pavlova, Marina A

    Journal of neuroscience research

    2017  Volume 95, Issue 1-2, Page(s) 235–250

    Abstract: As the most fascinating, complex, and dynamic part of our organism, the human brain is shaped by many interacting factors that not only are of neurobiological (including sex hormones) and environmental origin but are also sociocultural in their very ... ...

    Abstract As the most fascinating, complex, and dynamic part of our organism, the human brain is shaped by many interacting factors that not only are of neurobiological (including sex hormones) and environmental origin but are also sociocultural in their very nature (such as social roles). Gender is one of these factors. Most neurological, neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric, and psychosomatic disorders are characterized by impairments in visual social cognition (primarily body language reading and face perception) and a skewed sex ratio: females and males are affected differently in terms of clinical picture, prevalence, and severity. Is the social brain sex specific? This is still an open question. For a long time and for many reasons, sex differences have been overlooked or entirely ignored in neuroscience and biomedical research: there is a paucity of neuroimaging work examining sex differences in the social brain. However, the pattern of experimental behavioral data in both healthy, typically developing individuals and patients with deficient social cognition is beyond simple interpretation: contrary to popular wisdom, females are not always more proficient in understanding social signals, and their social abilities may be particularly affected by disease. Clarification of how neurobiological sex and sociocultural gender affect the social brain would provide novel insights into understanding gender-specific vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders. This interaction is far beyond simplicity. Although sex differences represent a rather delicate topic, underestimation or exaggeration of possible effects retards progress in the field. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Brain/physiology ; Brain Mapping ; Female ; Functional Laterality ; Humans ; Male ; Motion Perception/physiology ; Neuroimaging ; Sex Characteristics ; Sex Factors ; Social Behavior
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-01-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 195324-2
    ISSN 1097-4547 ; 0360-4012
    ISSN (online) 1097-4547
    ISSN 0360-4012
    DOI 10.1002/jnr.23871
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  8. Article ; Online: Emotions behind a mask: the value of disgust.

    Pavlova, Marina A / Moosavi, Jonas / Carbon, Claus-Christian / Fallgatter, Andreas J / Sokolov, Alexander N

    Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)

    2023  Volume 9, Issue 1, Page(s) 58

    Abstract: The impact of face masks on social cognition and interaction became a popular topic due to the long-lasting COVID-19 pandemic. This theme persists in the focus of attention beyond the pandemic, since face covering not only reduces the overall amount of ... ...

    Abstract The impact of face masks on social cognition and interaction became a popular topic due to the long-lasting COVID-19 pandemic. This theme persists in the focus of attention beyond the pandemic, since face covering not only reduces the overall amount of face information available but also introduces biases and prejudices affecting social perception at large. Many questions are still open. One of them is whether gender of beholders affects inferring of emotions covered by face masks. Reading covered faces may be particularly challenging for individuals with mental disorders, most of which are gender-specific. Previous findings are not only sparse, but inconclusive because most research had been conducted online with resulting samples heavily dominated by females. Here in a face-to-face study, females and males were presented with a randomized set of faces covered by masks. In a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm, participants had to indicate facial emotions displayed by posers. In general, the outcome dovetails with earlier findings that face masks affect emotion recognition in a dissimilar way: Inferring some emotions suffers more severely than others, with the most pronounced influence of mask wearing on disgust and close to ceiling recognition of fear and neutral expressions. Contrary to our expectations, however, males were on overall more proficient in emotion recognition. In particular, males substantially excelled in inferring disgust. The findings help to understand gender differences in recognition of disgust, the forgotten emotion of psychiatry, that is of substantial value for a wide range of mental disorders including schizophrenia. Watch Prof. Marina Pavlova discussing this her work and this article: https://vimeo.com/860126397/5966610f49?share=copy .
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-14
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3133210-9
    ISSN 2754-6993 ; 2754-6993
    ISSN (online) 2754-6993
    ISSN 2754-6993
    DOI 10.1038/s41537-023-00388-3
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  9. Article: Editorial: Impact of face covering on social cognition and interaction.

    Pavlova, Marina A / Carbon, Claus-Christian / Coello, Yann / Sokolov, Arseny A / Proverbio, Alice M

    Frontiers in neuroscience

    2023  Volume 17, Page(s) 1150604

    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-21
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2411902-7
    ISSN 1662-453X ; 1662-4548
    ISSN (online) 1662-453X
    ISSN 1662-4548
    DOI 10.3389/fnins.2023.1150604
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  10. Article: Editorial: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): The Impact and Role of Mass Media During the Pandemic.

    Arriaga, Patrícia / Esteves, Francisco / Pavlova, Marina A / Piçarra, Nuno

    Frontiers in psychology

    2021  Volume 12, Page(s) 729238

    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-23
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729238
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