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SUBMITTER: Ghuman AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3023960 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghuman Avniel Singh AS McDaniel Jonathan R JR Martin Alex A
Current biology : CB 20100101 1
Prolonged viewing of a stimulus results in a subsequent perceptual bias. This perceptual adaptation and the resulting aftereffect reveal important characteristics regarding how perceptual systems are tuned. These aftereffects occur not only for simple stimulus features but also for high-level stimulus properties. Here we report a novel cross-category adaptation aftereffect demonstrating that prolonged viewing of a human body without a face shifts the perceptual tuning curve for face gender and f ...[more]