Investigating the Neural Pattern Structure of Age and Gender - SANS 2021 poster
Channel: Monica Thieu
Date: 19/05/2022

Facial traits are not perceived identically. In particular, it seems that we tend to judge age continuously, as a number, but that we tend to judge gender categorically, more like a binary.

So when people perceive White adult faces, are facial age and gender actually represented in a binary or continuous manner? And, since faces always carry both age AND gender information, how does processing depend on which trait is task-relevant? Watch my short video to find out what we found!