Sex differences in navigation strategy and efficiency
Sex differences in navigation strategy and efficiency
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DOI：
10.3758/s13421-018-0811-y
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Hegarty, Mary
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作者：
Boone, Alexander P.;Gong, Xinyi;Hegarty, Mary
人类导航的研究表明，男性和女性在自我报告的导航策略以及导航效率的客观措施方面存在差异。在两个实验中，我们研究了导航策略和效率的性别差异，使用一种客观的策略测量，双解决方案范式（DSP; Marchette，Bakker，&谢尔顿，2011）。虽然导航的捷径和学习路线的主要策略，在这两个实验中使用的，在以前的研究中的DSP，个人也利用路线逆转，有时发现的目标位置作为流浪的结果。重要的是，在路线选择和导航效率的措施中发现了性别差异。特别是，男性更有可能走捷径，比女性更快地到达目标位置，而女性更有可能遵循学习的路线和徘徊。策略的自我报告措施只有弱相关的客观措施的战略，怀疑他们的有用性。本研究表明，导航效率的性别差异是很大的，只有部分相关的个人的导航策略测量的双重解决方案的范式。
Research on human navigation has indicated that males and females differ in self-reported navigation strategy as well as objective measures of navigation efficiency. In two experiments, we investigated sex differences in navigation strategy and efficiency using an objective measure of strategy, the dual-solution paradigm (DSP; Marchette, Bakker, & Shelton, 2011). Although navigation by shortcuts and learned routes were the primary strategies used in both experiments, as in previous research on the DSP, individuals also utilized route reversals and sometimes found the goal location as a result of wandering. Importantly, sex differences were found in measures of both route selection and navigation efficiency. In particular, males were more likely to take shortcuts and reached their goal location faster than females, while females were more likely to follow learned routes and wander. Self-report measures of strategy were only weakly correlated with objective measures of strategy, casting doubt on their usefulness. This research indicates that the sex difference in navigation efficiency is large, and only partially related to an individual's navigation strategy as measured by the dual-solution paradigm.