We investigate the 'gender-congruency' effect during a spoken-word recognition task using the visual world paradigm. Eye movements of Italian-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals were monitored while they viewed a pair of objects on a computer screen. Participants listened to instructions in Spanish (encuentra la bufanda / 'find the scarf') and clicked on the object named in the instruct...

In sexually polymorphic plant species the extent of gender divergence in floral morphology and phenology may be influenced by gender-specific selection patterns imposed by pollinators, which may change geographically. Distribution margins are areas where changes in the pollinator fauna, and thus variation in gender divergence of floral traits, are expected. We tested for pollination-driven geog...

Title: HOW DID YOU GET IN? ATTRIBUTIONS OF PREFERENTIAL SELECTION IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Archie L. Bates, III, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Katherine J. Klein Department of Psychology Minorities are often suspected beneficiaries (e.g., Heilman, 1994) of affirmative action—that is, they are individuals who attribute or perceive that others attribute their selection for a job ...

Accurate gender classification is useful in speech and speaker recognition as well as speech emotion classification, because a better performance has been reported when separate acoustic models are employed for males and females. Gender classification is also apparent in face recognition, video summarization, human-robot interaction, etc. Although gender classification is rather mature in appli...

This paper introduces a men’s studies approach to Vietnamese gender studies. It explains the value of incorporating studies of men’s lives and experiences into gender and women’s studies. It argues that the study of gendered conflict and power is necessary to understanding Vietnamese gender relations. This understanding must be contextualized within the social processes of negotiation, cooperat...

This paper examines the contextual nature of gendered livelihood strategies through a comparative study of rural women=s producer groups in former homelands of South Africa and Appalachia. This comparative approach situates gendered livelihood strategies in distinct local contexts that are constituted by specific historical dynamics and cultural relations. Producer groups are defined here as co...

Apart from human recognition, gait has lately become a promising biometric feature also useful for prediction of gender. One of the most popular methods to represent gait is the well-known Gait Energy Image (GEI), which conducts to a high-dimensional Euclidean space where many features are irrelevant. In this paper, the problem of selecting the most relevant GEI features for gender classificati...

This study examined the role of maternal cognitive sets regarding infant gender on maternal response; participants were 69 mothers, each with a 6-month-old infant. Signal detection methodology was used to assess maternal sensory sensitivity and response bias to subtle changes in positive and negative infant facial expressions as a function of maternal self-efficacy, operationalized by low, mode...

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