The puzzle of spatial sex differences: Current status and prerequisites to solutions

NS Newcombe - Child Development Perspectives, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, I summarize what we know about the development of sex‐related differences
in spatial skills, their potential malleability, and their possible causes. Current evidence …

Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performance

D Alvarez-Vargas, C Abad, SM Pruden - Cognitive research: principles …, 2020 - Springer
Mental rotation ability is associated with successful advances in STEM (science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics) education and occupations. Meta-analyses have shown …

Investigating sex differences, cognitive effort, strategy, and performance on a computerised version of the mental rotations test via eye tracking

AJ Toth, MJ Campbell - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Mental rotation tests (MRTs) have previously shown one of the most prominent sex
differences in cognitive psychology, marked by a large male performance advantage …

Examining cognitive processes of spatial thinking in university students: Insights from a web‐based geographic information systems study

X ** visuospatial tasks. Among
visuospatial tasks, mental rotation tasks are widely used in the assessment of visuospatial …