Gender in facial representations: a contrast-based study of adaptation within and between the sexes.

Face aftereffects are proving to be an effective means of examining the properties of face-specific processes in the human visual system. We examined the role of gender in the neural representation of faces using a contrast-based adaptation method. If faces of different genders share the same repres...

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Main Authors: Ipek Oruç, Xiaoyue M Guo, Jason J S Barton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3022762?pdf=render