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Published on: April 11, 2018
Adaptation of gender derived from biological motion
Heather Jordan1, Mazyar Fallah, Gene R Stoner
1Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. Jordan@cvr.yorku.ca
Abstract:
Human observers adapted to complex biological motions that distinguish males from females: viewing the gait of one gender biased judgments of subsequent gaits toward the opposite gender. This adaptation was not simply due to local features of the stimuli but instead relied upon the global motion of the figures. These results suggest the existence of neurons selective for gender and demonstrate that gender-from-motion judgments are not fixed but depend upon recent viewing history.
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