Sex of human stimulus matters: female and male stimuli are processed differently in mental rotation tasks. Issue 8 (17th November 2018)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Sex of human stimulus matters: female and male stimuli are processed differently in mental rotation tasks. Issue 8 (17th November 2018)
- Main Title:
- Sex of human stimulus matters: female and male stimuli are processed differently in mental rotation tasks
- Authors:
- Kaltner, Sandra
Jansen, Petra - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The main goal of the present study was to assess whether the sex of a human stimulus affects mental rotation performance. The results are pretty straight-forward: Men show a better performance than women and also male stimuli result in a faster processing by both women and men compared to female stimuli. Furthermore, the advantage of egocentric transformations over object-based transformations disappeared for females in difficult tasks using female stimuli. This experiment gives a hint that women are affected to a greater extent from the sex of the presented stimuli compared to men. The underlying mechanisms need to be investigated in future research.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of cognitive psychology. Volume 30:Issue 8(2018)
- Journal:
- Journal of cognitive psychology
- Issue:
- Volume 30:Issue 8(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 30, Issue 8 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0030-0008-0000
- Page Start:
- 854
- Page End:
- 862
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-17
- Subjects:
- Mental rotation -- gender differences -- embodied stimuli -- self-related processes
Cognitive psychology -- Periodicals
153.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pecp21 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/09541446.html ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/20445911.2018.1530677 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2044-5911
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