These stimulus functions encoded the presentation of each of the three categories of stimuli (events, objects, and persons) and their desirability (desirable, indifferent, and undesirable) based on the subject-specific ratings.
In an event-related fMRI study, we scanned eighteen normal human subjects while they viewed three categories of pictures (events, objects and persons) which they classified according to desirability (desirable, indifferent or undesirable).
In this way, she aims to offer a more nuanced approach to the importance of identity in democratic politics, explicitly taking up a "tension that arises between queer theory and both intersex and transsexual activism" which "centers on the question of sex assignment and the desirability of identity categories" (7).
Contrasts of category and desirability effects were taken to second-level t-tests to produce statistical maps at the group level.
The tightly curated catalog featured 30 lots, each chosen for its desirability and origin in categories such as fine art, ancient ceramics, jewelry, watches and rare wines.
For example, while Feinberg tends to emphasize the historical persistence of transgender people as a kind of people or oppressed group, Bornstein tends to emphasize the constructed (and oppressive) nature of gender categories as a whole, the desirability of viewing gender as fashion, and the importance of moving toward a more consensual gender system.
Categories 1 and 2 are collapsed (as their distinction may reflect social desirability bias rather than different experiences) to be scored as Active involvement, category 3 is Shared involvement, and categories 4 and 5 are collapsed to Passive involvement.
To investigate the distribution of these relationships, we carried out a separate analysis in which we modeled the regressors for the three categories (events, persons and objects) with desirability as a parametric modulator.
