Evidence for Gender Bias in Color Perception: Men recognize colors faster

EasyChair Preprint 1650

Abstract

The paper proposes a divided visual field experiment for studying possible gender bias in chromatic sensitivity, A novel experimental methodology is presented using virtual reality headset for delivering visual stimuli. The use of virtual reality headset enables us to present distinct visual stimuli to the two visual hemispheres, also giving freedom on the choice of stimuli presentation time and reducing the chances of error. Two separate android applications have been developed for the experiment. The first android application is used for presenting the same or different visual stimuli to the two eyes of the subject. The second android application is used for recording the responses. Each test subject goes through sixty trials in the experiment, where each trial consists of displaying the target color for a brief period of time followed by a black screen and then distinct colors are displayed separately to each visual field for a very brief period of time. The experiment has been conducted on 16 individuals (8 male and 8 female). A significant result is observed that males have a faster reaction time than females. ANOVA analysis on the data revealed a p-value of 0.0376, thus indicating statistical significance.

Keyphrases: color recognition, divided visual fields, gender bias

@booklet{EasyChair:1650,
  author    = {Jerrin Thomas Panachakel and Aprameya Bharadwaj and Roshan Neil Livingstone and A.G. Ramakrishnan},
  title     = {Evidence for Gender Bias in Color Perception: Men recognize colors faster},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 1650},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}