Fig. 2: Percentage of responses and reaction times across males and females in the transfer phase.
From: Sex differences in motivational biases over instrumental actions
Direction bias plots respectively show averaged (A) and trial-by-trial (C) percentage of congruent and incongruent responses in males and females. Intensity bias plots respectively show averaged (B) and trial-by-trial (D) reaction times to CS+ and CS− in males and females. In both averaged graphs, boxplots, individual scores, and data distributions are reported in coral for females and blue for males. In trial-by-trial graphs, x-axis always represents trials. Y-axis represents the percentage of congruent (blue) and incongruent (green) responses for the direction bias, and the reaction times to CS+ (blue) and CS− (green) for the intensity bias. The shaded regions reflect ±SEM (standard error of the mean) across subjects for each response. Data are smoothed using a 15-trial moving average. Overall, data show the direction bias (greater percentage of congruent responses) in both sexes, while the intensity bias (faster reaction times to CS+ than CS−) is present in males, and not in females.
