Faces Look More Male When Seen By Left Side Of The Brain

A small experiment has found that people are quicker to categorize a face as being male when it is shown to the left side of the brain. The conclusion was drawn from an analysis of responses from 42 volunteers who were asked to focus on a cross in the center of a computer screen. They were then shown faces, which were morphed from 100 percent male to 100 percent female across 280 trials, and were asked to categorize the faces as either female or male as quickly as possible. When an image was presented to the left side of the brain, it was generally considered more male, even though it was correctly perceived as more female when presented to the right side of the brain.  read more

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