Interactions revealed by Garner tasks likely emerge during the perceptual analysis of the stimuli, rather than via top-down links between the social categories. Further, our findings confirm that ccPAS is a promising protocol for investigating of bottom-up and top-down processes in visual cognition!

After boosting forward connectivity between V1 and the EBA the interference of sex on emotion judgments was eliminated, suggesting that attentional interferences for body judgments emerge at a forward stage of processing.

In a second experiment we use an offline TMS protocol (cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation) to strengthen forward or feedback connectivity between the primary visual and body-selective cortex.

Using the Garner selective attention paradigm we show that judgements of body fearful and happy emotion is slowed down by the task irrelevant variation of body sex.

Thanks also to the Donders CityLab - www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... for making this collaboration with a local museum possible!

In addition, with the largest inattentional blindness sample to date, we show that large-scale experiments on unsupervised participants in public spaces can help studying cognitive and perceptual phenomena - particularly with studies with few critical trials that rely on participants' naivety!🏛️

What does a body detection inversion effect mean?
Detection of another person is likely to occur from a distance. Bottom-up sensitivity to upright body features may provide an advantage, in evolutionary terms, for readily detecting the presence of others at a “safe” distance.

With this large scale diverse and naive sample we also show that, in line with previous reports, age and gender differences exist in detection rates of inattentional blindness paradigms -
The older the less you detect unexpected critical stimuli!
And people identifying as men detect it more often