Individual differences in the use of form and motion in the perception of sex in biological motion displays.

Hiris, Eric; McLoughlin, William G.; Yang, G. Z.; Conway, Sean

doi:10.1167/18.10.50

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“…It appears that males heavily rely upon common mechanisms underpinning gender and emotion recognition through BM, whereas in females, this tie is not so pronounced: only response time but not accuracy of gender and emotion recognition are positively linked to each other. This outcome appears to dovetail with recent reports indicating that females and males tend to use different types of information during BM processing and gender recognition in point-light displays: females rely on form and motion cues together, whereas males use motion cues solely (Hiris et al, 2018). This is also in line with recent findings on gender recognition in human infants aged 4-18 months: in a habituation paradigm, boys more easily differentiate the gender of a pointlight walker, presumably possessing higher sensitivity to motion parameters (Murray et al, 2018;Tsang et al, 2018).…”

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Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

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We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring emotions through BM (body language reading) are firmly linked and examined whether this tie is gender-specific. Healthy females and males completed two tasks with the same set of point-light BM displays portraying angry and neutral locomotion of female and male actors. For one task, perceivers had to indicate actor gender, while for the other, they had to infer the emotional content of locomotion. Thus, with identical visual input, we directed task demands either to BM processing or inferring of emotion. This design allows straight comparison between sensitivity to BM and recognition of emotions conveyed by the same BM. In addition, perceivers were administered a set of photographs from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), with which they identified either emotional state or actor gender. Although there were no gender differences in performance on BM tasks, a tight link occurred between recognition accuracy of emotions and gender through BM in males. In females only, body language reading (both accuracy and response time) was associated with performance on the RMET. The outcome underscores gender-specific modes in visual social cognition and triggers investigation of body language reading in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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