December 2001
Volume 1, Issue 3
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   December 2001
“You can tell by the way I use my walk…”: New studies of gender and gait
Author Affiliations
  • I. M. Thornton
    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
  • D. W. Cunningham
    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
  • N. F. Troje
    Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • H. H. Bülthoff
    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Journal of Vision December 2001, Vol.1, 354. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.354
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      I. M. Thornton, D. W. Cunningham, N. F. Troje, H. H. Bülthoff; “You can tell by the way I use my walk…”: New studies of gender and gait. Journal of Vision 2001;1(3):354. https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.354.

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Abstract

Johansson's (1973) point light walkers remain one of the most compelling demonstrations of how motion can determine the perception of form. Most studies of biological motion perception have presented isolated point-light figures in unstructured environments. Recently we have begun to explore the perception of human motion using more naturalistic displays and tasks. Here, we report new findings on the perception of gender using a visual search paradigm. Three-dimensional walking sequences were captured from human actors (4 male, 4 female) using a 7 camera motion capture system. These sequences were processed to produce point-light computer models which were displayed in a simple virtual environment. The figures appeared in a random location and walked on a random path within the bounds of an invisible virtual arena. Walkers could face and move in all directions, moving in both the frontal parallel plane and in depth. In separate blocks observers searched for a male or a female target among distractors of the opposite gender. Set size was varied from between 1 and 4. Targets were present on 50% of trials. Preliminary results suggest that both male and female observers can locate targets of the opposite gender faster than targets of the same gender

Thornton, I.M., Cunningham, D.W., Troje, N.F., Bülthoff, H.H.(2001). “You can tell by the way I use my walk...”: New studies of gender and gait [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 1( 3): 354, 354a, http://journalofvision.org/1/3/354/, doi:10.1167/1.3.354. [CrossRef]
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