Gender bending: Auditory cues affect visual judgements of gender in biological motion displays

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 373-382

  Van Der Zwan, R ^a   MacHatch, C ^a   Kozlowski, D ^a   Troje, N F ^b   Blanke, O ^c   Brooks, Anna ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aftereffect; Audiovisual integration; Biological motion; Gender; Multisensory; Point light

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 69549135281     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1800-y     Document Type: Article

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