Gender differences in apparent motion perception.
Distance disparity is a strong cue to element correspondence in apparent motion. Using a 2-AFC paradigm we have previously shown that shape similarity also plays a role. We now demonstrate a small gender difference in these effects: women are more sensitive to distance disparity, whereas men are more sensitive to differences in shape. Furthermore, in the competing presence of a shape cue, women's sensitivity to distance decreases while men's sensitivity is unaffected. These observations may be related to putative gender differences in the 'form' and 'motion-spatial relations' cortical pathways.
Shechter
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Neurobiology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Hillman
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Hochstein
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Shapley
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004215:Distance Perception; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D011601:Psychophysics