Differences in cue use and spatial memory in men and women
Differences in cue use and spatial memory in men and women
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2006.3572
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发表时间：
2006-09-07
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Healy, Susan D.
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作者：
Jones, Catherine M.;Healy, Susan D.
男性和女性解决空间问题的能力不同。对此有两种可能的近似解释：(i)男性和女性使用信息的种类（和价值）不同，和/或（ii）他们在空间问题上的认知能力不同。通过一个简单的计算机化任务，我们发现女性依靠物体的视觉特征来解决任务，而男性则同时使用视觉和位置信息。这个任务可以根据物体的外观或位置来选择物体。在记忆物体的视觉特征方面，男女之间没有差异，但女性在记住物体位置方面比男性差。
Men and women differ in their ability to solve spatial problems. There are two possible proximate explanations for this: (i) men and women differ in the kind (and value) of information they use and/or (ii) their cognitive abilities differ with respect to spatial problems. Using a simple computerized task which could be solved either by choosing an object based on what it looked like, or by its location, we found that the women relied on the object's visual features to solve the task, while the men used both visual and location information. There were no differences between the sexes in memory for the visual features of the objects, but women were poorer than men at remembering the locations of objects.