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PMID: 20937298 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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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. |
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Hua Yang; Jianhong Shen; Juan Chen; Fang Fang |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-10-15 |
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Title: Vision research Volume: 51 ISSN: 1878-5646 ISO Abbreviation: Vision Res. Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2010-12-27 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0417402 Medline TA: Vision Res Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 105-10 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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YuanPei College, Peking University, PR China. |
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