Fig. 1From: Sex differences in the rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional valuea, b Example trials in the learning task (a) and the visual search task (b). In the learning task, participants were required to choose one face from each pair to maximize their earnings. In the visual search task, the participants had to identify one discrepant face embedded among distractor faces. A representative search trial in the target-present condition (for neutral female stimuli). In the actual experiment, the target faces were not covered with eye masksBack to article page