RT Journal Article
A1 Shaqiri, Albulena
A1 Brand, Andreas
A1 Roinishvili, Maya
A1 Kunchulia, Marina
A1 Sierro, Guillaume
A1 Willemin, Julie
A1 Chkonia, Eka
A1 Iannantuoni, Luisa
A1 Pilz, Karin
A1 Mohr, Christine
A1 Herzog, Michael
T1 Gender differences in visual perception 
JF Journal of Vision
JO Journal of Vision
YR 2016
DO 10.1167/16.12.207
VO 16
IS 12
SP 207
OP 207
SN 1534-7362
AB  Gender differences are well established in cognition and somato-sensation, but there are almost no studies on gender differences in visual perception. In vision experiments, sample size of participants is often small because effect sizes are large. However, small samples are not well suited to test for gender differences. Here, we pooled data from 4 studies resulting in 1091 participants ranging in age from 14 to 90 years. We tested participants' performance in visual and vernier acuity, visual backward masking and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. We found no gender differences in any of the four tests for younger participants (n=431; 14-30 years old). Even in a subgroup of schizophrenia patients (n=291), we did not find gender differences, but large performance deficits in patients compared to controls. For middle-aged participants (n=185; 31-59 years old), men performed significantly better than women in all perceptual tests, even when we controlled for age. We also found better performance of men compared to women in vernier duration in older participants (n=183; 60-90 years old) and trends in the same direction for the other tests. Hence, it may be that women's performance deteriorates with age more strongly than men's performance. We did not find any difference in the Wisconsin card sorting test, indicating no gender differences for executive functions. Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2016 
RD 3/2/2021
UL https://doi.org/10.1167/16.12.207