Yeah, right.
Posted on 11/27/2008 7:53:13 PM PST by neverdem
Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop within a few months after birth
The gender gap in spatial abilities — charted for more than 30 years — emerges within the first few months of life, years earlier than previously thought, psychologists report.
Males typically outperform females on spatial-ability tests by age 4, especially on tasks that require mental rotation of objects perceived as three-dimensional. Yet,
two studies of 3- to 5-month-olds, both published in the November Psychological Science, conclude that a substantially greater proportion of boys than girls distinguish a block arrangement from its mirror image, after having first seen the block arrangement rotated. Babies who prefer looking at the mirror image are presumed to have mentally rotated the block arrangement, recognized it and chosen to gaze at the novel mirror image.
One investigation was conducted by David Moore of Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and Scott Johnson of the University of California, Los Angeles. The other was directed by Paul Quinn of the University of Delaware in Newark and Lynn Liben of Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
Both sets of researchers suspect that sex differences in mental rotation develop shortly after birth due to an unknown mix of genetic, biological and environmental influences.
“The result we found was really somewhat of a shocker,” Moore says. He had expected to demonstrate no sex difference in infants’ mental rotation skills, laying the groundwork for pinpointing the age at which this spatial gap first appears.
“Simultaneous reports by two different labs using two different techniques are difficult to dismiss,” remarks psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University in Philadelphia.
Still, the new reports don’t confirm that baby boys perform mental rotation tasks better than baby girls do, comments psychologist Susan Levine of the University of Chicago...
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No, a very real effect. The brain needs testosterone to process spatial information. Women do have some testosterone, but not nearly as much as a man does. (A thought that, no doubt, horrifies the average, Oprah-cized, White, liberal male!) Men are thus more skilled at seeing objects in three dimensions. Women usually cannot imagine an object in three dimensions and see it rotating in space.
Yeah, right.
It’s called “Testosterone Blindness”
Who drew that cartoon of my husband?
Thin, very thin.
ROFL!
Lol, how True that Picture is! : )
True, for me anyway. I actually start to panic when someone gives me directions involving compass points.
And actually envisioning a finished house from a blueprint? I'm thinking Najavo code talkers.
There’s testosterone in milk??
Only if you milk the bull </ceramics joke>
He is call Every Husband and if you want to hide something, put it right in front of him.
More Comparative Spatial Recognition:
I wonder who knows it and who doesn’t.
Your ceramics joke is smashing.
*shrug* So I cracked a joke...
I've noticed this phenomena. Men and women are different. Viva la difference!
(Female here)
'Tis true.
Yet, while refusing to accept the evidence that males excel in things like spatial co-ordination, they also seem to ignore the evidence that females excel over males in some areas. That doesn't seem to penetrate their thinking a bit.
It's a communistic mindset they have, no doubt about it.
LOL! Keep me on.
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