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Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception
Protracted exposure to specific stimuli causes biased visual aftereffects at both low- and high-level dimensions of a stimulus. Recently, it has been proposed that alterations of these aftereffects could play a role in body misperceptions. However, since previous studies have mainly addressed manipu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34387745 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01569-4 |
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author | D’Argenio, Giulia Finisguerra, Alessandra Urgesi, Cosimo |
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description | Protracted exposure to specific stimuli causes biased visual aftereffects at both low- and high-level dimensions of a stimulus. Recently, it has been proposed that alterations of these aftereffects could play a role in body misperceptions. However, since previous studies have mainly addressed manipulations of body size, the relative contribution of low-level retinotopic and/or high-level object-based mechanisms is yet to be understood. In three experiments, we investigated visual aftereffects for body-gender perception, testing for the tuning of visual aftereffects across different characters and orientation. We found that exposure to a distinctively female (or male) body makes androgynous bodies appear as more masculine (or feminine) and that these aftereffects were not specific for the individual characteristics of the adapting body (Exp.1). Furthermore, exposure to only upright bodies (Exp.2) biased the perception of upright, but not of inverted bodies, while exposure to both upright and inverted bodies (Exp.3) biased perception for both. Finally, participants’ sensitivity to body aftereffects was lower in individuals with greater communication deficits and deeper internalization of a male gender role. Overall, our data reveals the orientation-, but not identity-tuning of body-gender aftereffects and points to the association between alterations of the malleability of body gender perception and social deficits. |
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spelling | pubmed-90909032022-05-12 Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception D’Argenio, Giulia Finisguerra, Alessandra Urgesi, Cosimo Psychol Res Original Article Protracted exposure to specific stimuli causes biased visual aftereffects at both low- and high-level dimensions of a stimulus. Recently, it has been proposed that alterations of these aftereffects could play a role in body misperceptions. However, since previous studies have mainly addressed manipulations of body size, the relative contribution of low-level retinotopic and/or high-level object-based mechanisms is yet to be understood. In three experiments, we investigated visual aftereffects for body-gender perception, testing for the tuning of visual aftereffects across different characters and orientation. We found that exposure to a distinctively female (or male) body makes androgynous bodies appear as more masculine (or feminine) and that these aftereffects were not specific for the individual characteristics of the adapting body (Exp.1). Furthermore, exposure to only upright bodies (Exp.2) biased the perception of upright, but not of inverted bodies, while exposure to both upright and inverted bodies (Exp.3) biased perception for both. Finally, participants’ sensitivity to body aftereffects was lower in individuals with greater communication deficits and deeper internalization of a male gender role. Overall, our data reveals the orientation-, but not identity-tuning of body-gender aftereffects and points to the association between alterations of the malleability of body gender perception and social deficits. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-08-13 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9090903/ /pubmed/34387745 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01569-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article D’Argenio, Giulia Finisguerra, Alessandra Urgesi, Cosimo Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title | Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title_full | Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title_fullStr | Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title_full_unstemmed | Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title_short | Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
title_sort | experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34387745 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01569-4 |
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