Movies have the ability to trigger our emotions and affect us in powerful ways. But the impact is not the same among all the audience and, according to our results, also not between women and men. In this study, we used an electroencephalogram (EEG) to register the brain activity of a group of 30 students while they watched a violent scene. The results showed that both male and female groups activated the left temporal lobe. However, the female group also activated the left insula and orbitofrontal areas of both hemispheres. The results of Hotelling’s T-squared distribution also showed significant differences in occipital areas of the brain in favour of women. Thus, our findings evidence that the violent scene activated emotional areas in both male and female groups, but in women there was also an activation of brain areas related to shape and colour recognition and to cognitive processes.

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观看暴力电影期间男性和女性的大脑活动：一项脑电图研究

电影能够触发我们的情绪并以强有力的方式影响我们。但所有观众的影响并不相同，而且根据我们的结果，女性和男性之间的影响也不同。在这项研究中，我们使用脑电图 (EEG) 记录了 30 名学生在观看暴力场景时的大脑活动。结果显示，男性和女性组都激活了左颞叶。然而，女性组还激活了两个半球的左侧岛叶和眶额区域。霍特林 T 方分布的结果还显示，大脑枕叶区域存在显着差异，有利于女性。因此，我们的研究结果证明，暴力场景激活了男性和女性群体的情感区域，但在女性中，与形状和颜色识别以及认知过程相关的大脑区域也被激活。