title: No sex differences in contrast sensitivity and reaction time to spatial frequency.
abstract: This study investigated the possibility of sex differences in spatial frequency processing by measuring contrast sensitivity and reaction time to spatial frequency in the same 20 men and 20 women. This is the first study to investigate sex differences in reaction time to spatial frequency and the first to study sex differences in contrast sensitivity and reaction time within the same participants. No sex differences were found in either contrast sensitivity or reaction time measures, suggesting that women and men process spatial frequency information similarly.
authors.affiliation: University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Solberg
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012737:Sex Factors; D013028:Space Perception