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A shared neural code for gender across faces, bodies, and objects in the human brain

2026-05-08

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Humans can readily infer gender from diverse visual categories, including faces, bodies, and objects, yet it remains unclear whether the brain constructs a shared, category-general representation of gender. To fill the gap, we measured neural responses using fMRI while participants viewed female and male stimuli across these three categories. Multivoxel pattern analyses revealed that gender information was encoded...

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b36d8a66-4efd-5b90-a688-7b5cb5997240
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10.64898/2026.05.04.722201
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