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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Prolonged exposure to stimuli creates visual aftereffects influencing perception.
  • Alterations in aftereffects may contribute to body misperceptions, but mechanisms are unclear.
  • Previous research focused on body size, leaving gender perception mechanisms understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate visual aftereffects in body-gender perception.
  • Determine if aftereffects are tuned to specific body identities or orientation.
  • Explore links between body perception malleability and social deficits.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments examined visual aftereffects for body-gender perception.
  • Tested aftereffect tuning across different body characters and orientations.
  • Assessed participants' communication deficits and gender role internalization.

Main Results:

  • Exposure to gender-specific bodies induced aftereffects on androgynous bodies, independent of specific identity.
  • Aftereffects were orientation-specific: upright exposure only affected upright perception, while mixed exposure affected both.
  • Lower sensitivity to body aftereffects correlated with communication deficits and male gender role internalization.

Conclusions:

  • Body-gender aftereffects are tuned to orientation, not specific body identities.
  • Malleability of body gender perception may be associated with social deficits.
  • Findings advance understanding of visual processing and body perception.