| Title | Face adaptation improves gender discrimination |
| Authors | Yang, Hua Shen, Jianhong Chen, Juan Fang, Fang |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Peking Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Peking Univ, YuanPei Coll, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. |
| Keywords | Adaptation Gender Discrimination Face Psychophysics ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION CONTRAST ADAPTATION SPEED SENSITIVITY VISUAL-CORTEX ATTENTION SHAPE VIEW SIZE REPRESENTATIONS SELECTIVITY |
| Issue Date | 2011 |
| Publisher | 视觉研究 |
| Citation | VISION RESEARCH.2011,51,(1),105-110. |
| Abstract | Adaptation to a visual pattern can alter the sensitivities of neuronal populations encoding the pattern. However, the functional roles of adaptation, especially in high-level vision, are still equivocal. In the present study, we performed three experiments to investigate if face gender adaptation could affect gender discrimination. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that adapting to a male/female face could selectively enhance discrimination for male/female faces. Experiment 3 showed that the discrimination enhancement induced by face adaptation could transfer across a substantial change in three-dimensional face viewpoint. These results provide further evidence suggesting that, similar to low-level vision, adaptation in high-level vision could calibrate the visual system to current inputs of complex shapes (i.e. face) and improve discrimination at the adapted characteristic. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/196329 |
| ISSN | 0042-6989 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.visres.2010.10.006 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) PubMed SSCI |
| Appears in Collections: | 心理与认知科学学院 机器感知与智能教育部重点实验室 元培学院 |
