Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous

Abstract Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast de...

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Autores principales:	Albulena Shaqiri, Maya Roinishvili, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Eka Chkonia, Karin Pilz, Christine Mohr, Andreas Brand, Marina Kunchulia, Michael H. Herzog
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2018
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:df9114ce0a324d1cabebca4de755613c2021-12-02T16:07:52ZSex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous10.1038/s41598-018-25298-82045-2322https://doaj.org/article/df9114ce0a324d1cabebca4de755613c2018-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25298-8https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion detection) for a cohort of over 800 participants. On six of the fifteen tests, males significantly outperformed females. On no test did females significantly outperform males. Given this heterogeneity of the sex effects, it is unlikely that the sex differences are due to any single mechanism. A practical consequence of the results is that it is important to control for sex in vision research, and that findings of sex differences for cognitive measures using visually based tasks should confirm that their results cannot be explained by baseline sex differences in visual perception.Albulena ShaqiriMaya RoinishviliLukasz GrzeczkowskiEka ChkoniaKarin PilzChristine MohrAndreas BrandMarina KunchuliaMichael H. HerzogNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Albulena Shaqiri Maya Roinishvili Lukasz Grzeczkowski Eka Chkonia Karin Pilz Christine Mohr Andreas Brand Marina Kunchulia Michael H. Herzog Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
description	Abstract Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion detection) for a cohort of over 800 participants. On six of the fifteen tests, males significantly outperformed females. On no test did females significantly outperform males. Given this heterogeneity of the sex effects, it is unlikely that the sex differences are due to any single mechanism. A practical consequence of the results is that it is important to control for sex in vision research, and that findings of sex differences for cognitive measures using visually based tasks should confirm that their results cannot be explained by baseline sex differences in visual perception.
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author	Albulena Shaqiri Maya Roinishvili Lukasz Grzeczkowski Eka Chkonia Karin Pilz Christine Mohr Andreas Brand Marina Kunchulia Michael H. Herzog
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title	Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
title_short	Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
title_full	Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
title_fullStr	Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
title_full_unstemmed	Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous
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Sex-related differences in vision are heterogeneous

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