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¹Multisensory Integration Laboratory, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. mbarnettcowan@gmail.com

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Human Perception
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Previous research suggests females are more 'visually dependent' than males.
Females show greater influence from visual frames when aligning objects to vertical compared to males.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate sex differences in visual dependence.
To determine if females rely more on visual information at the expense of other sensory inputs.
To explore task-specific variations in spatial processing between sexes.

Main Methods:

Compared subjective visual vertical and perceptual upright judgments in 29 females and 24 males.
Manipulated visual cue orientation and observer posture.
Assessed individual variance in spatial judgments.

Main Results:

When upright, females' subjective visual vertical was more influenced by visual cues and showed greater variability than males'.
No significant sex differences were observed in the perceptual upright task.
Individual variance in spatial judgments predicted visual dependence across both sexes.
No reliable sex differences were found when participants lay right-side down.

Conclusions:

Heightened visual dependence in females is task-specific, not a general deficit.
Differences in sensory processing mechanisms likely underlie observed sex-specific spatial task performance.
Females' performance disadvantage occurs specifically when gravity and body axis align, not due to poorer access to gravity or body representation information.