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An online version of the Mooney Face Test: phenotypic and genetic associations.


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Authors

Verhallen, Roeland J 
Bosten, Jenny M 
Goodbourn, Patrick T 
Bargary, Gary 
Lawrance-Owen, Adam J 

Abstract

The Mooney Face Test is a widely used test of face perception, but was originally designed to be administered by personal interview. We have developed a three-alternative forced-choice version for online testing. We tested 397 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 42 (M=24 years). There was a wide range of performance (64-100% correct; M=89.6%). We observed a significant sex difference favoring males (.31 standard deviation; p =.004). In addition, independently of sex, higher 2D:4D digit ratios were significantly associated with higher scores (ρ=.14, p=.006). A genome-wide association study (GWAS) for a subset of 370 participants identified an association between Mooney performance and a polymorphism in the RAPGEF5 gene (rs1522280; p=9.68×10(-8)). This association survives a permutation test (p=.031).

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Keywords

Closure, Face perception, Genome-wide association study (GWAS), Gestalt perception, Individual differences, Mooney Face Test, RAPGEF5, rs1522280, Adolescent, Adult, Choice Behavior, Data Collection, Face, Female, Fingers, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Internet, Male, Perceptual Closure, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sex Factors, Young Adult, ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors

Journal Title

Neuropsychologia

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Journal ISSN

0028-3932
1873-3514

Volume Title

63

Publisher

Elsevier BV