Scientists from Vanderbilt University (USA) have carried out a study on individual differences in the way we visually process images and recognize the objects we perceive. The results, published in the journal Vision Research, confirm that practically everyone develops at an early age the ability to identify human faces, essential for social interactions. However, they have also found that there is a "sexual effect" when it comes to recognizing objects, as explained by psychologist Isabel Gauthier. Specifically, men are better at recognizing cars, motorcycles, airplanes and other vehicles, while the "female specialty" consists in visually identifying birds, mushrooms, plant leaves , butterflies and, in general, everything related to living beings .
Although it had previously been shown that, when an object rotates, boys are faster and more effective at identifying what it is about than women, this is the first time that it has been proven that gender also influences the categories of objects that we perceive better .
