Gender differences in the recognition of spatially transformed figures: Behavioral data and event-related potentials (ERPs)

Михайлова, Е. С.; Slavutskaya, A. V.; Gerasimenko, N. Yu.

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.005

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“…Many studies have shown that males outperform females on spatial ability, especially in mental rotation tasks (Levine, Foley, Lourenco, Ehrlich, & Ratliff, 2016;Lippa, Collaer, & Peters, 2010;Reilly & Neumann, 2013;Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). Regarding psychophysiological measures, gender differences in mental rotation tasks have also been reported (Gootjes, Bruggeling, Magnée, & Van Strien, 2008;Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, & Gerasimenko, 2012). For example, Gootjes et al (2008) found that women were about 100 ms slower than men in a mental rotation task and that their ERP mental rotation effect (the rotation-related negativity) was delayed: it appeared in the 400-500 ms window for men, and in the 500-600 ms window for women.…”

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Spatial processing in a mental rotation task: Differences between high and low math-anxiety individuals

Peña

González-Gómez

Colomé

2019

Biological Psychology

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Previous studies suggested that highly math-anxious (HMA) individuals invest more attentional resources than their low math-anxious (LMA) peers in numerical tasks, and have worse spatial skills. We aimed to explore whether they also need to apply more resources in spatial tasks. In this study, HMA and LMA individuals saw normal or mirror-reversed letters in six orientations and made mirror-normal decisions. In both groups, response times and errors increased with angular deviation from upright and the ERP mental rotation effect was found. However, HMAs were slower to respond than their LMA counterparts. Interestingly, the HMA group showed a larger P3b in greater deviations for normal letters and in all mirrored letters. Since P3b amplitude reflects the attentional resources invested in the categorization of relevant stimuli, HMA individuals may need to devote more processing effort than their LMA peers when performing mental rotation. This finding is consistent with the Attentional Control Theory.

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Spatial processing in a mental rotation task: Differences between high and low math-anxiety individuals

Peña

González-Gómez

Colomé

2019

Biological Psychology

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“…In our previous study (Mikhailova et al, 2012) males and females revealed no differences in reaction time and accuracy at figure identification after its spatial transformation (displacement and rotation of the figure's details). At the same time, there were significant differences in the image processing, and only males revealed the early perceptual stage sensitivity to the image transformation.…”

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“…Data relating to gender differences in the performance of visuospatial tasks are well represented in the literature. The gender differences were recorded during the three-dimensional mental rotation task (Collins, Kimura, 1997;Jordan et al, 2002;Tzuriel, Egozi, 2010), visual object construction test (Georgopoulos et al, 2001;Mikhailova et al, 2012), and navigation (Andersen et al, 2012). The differences in the performance of line orientation recognition task are described in a few behavioural studies (Caparelli-Dáquer et al, 2009;Collaer, Nelson, 2002).…”

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Effects of line orientation in visual evoked potentials. Spatial dynamics, and gender differences of neural oblique effect

Михайлова

Gerasimenko

Slavutskaya

2018

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The aim of the study was to investigate neural mechanisms of orientation discrimination in humans by recording the 128-channel event-related potentials (ERPs) of the brain. Stimuli were black-and-white gratings having four orientations: horizontal, vertical, and oblique 45 and 135 deg. from vertical. Thirty-five healthy subjects (16 males, 19 females) participating in the experiments were asked to differentiate the orientations and push the button. The results showed that the orientation processing consists of two main stages. In the occipital, parietal and temporal areas the P100 and N150 components reflecting the early perceptual stage of processing showed amplitudes greater for oblique orientations than for cardinal ones -"inverse" oblique effect. Further, in the central-parietal and frontal areas the P300 and N400 components reflecting the later cognitive stage of processing showed the "classic" oblique effect with greater amplitudes for cardinal orientations. Females demonstrated lower ERP amplitudes and less pronounced differences between responses elicited by cardinal and oblique orientations. The results suggest that in humans the orientation discrimination occurs in a distributed neural network involving the early sensory as well as higher anterior cortical areas. The classic behavioral oblique effect might be controlled by later processing in the anterior cortical areas. The insufficient neural orientation selectivity observed in females may be considered as the biological basis of their poorer visuospatial abilities.

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“…In addition, Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, and Gerasimenko (2012) showed recently that males and females both perform similarly when tasked with recognizing rotated objects. They found that males display activity in their parietal lobes consistent with early visuo-spatial processing function (Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, & Gerasimenko, 2012). The authors concluded that males and females use different strategies in recognizing rotated objects, but indicated that the end result in recognizing rotated objects is the same (Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, & Gerasimenko, 2012).…”

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“…This disparity may be due to differences in the testing and stimuli used (Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). In addition, Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, and Gerasimenko (2012) showed recently that males and females both perform similarly when tasked with recognizing rotated objects. They found that males display activity in their parietal lobes consistent with early visuo-spatial processing function (Mikhailova, Slavutskaya, & Gerasimenko, 2012).…”

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Pre-injury variables and risk of sport concussion

Mylabathula

2017

Br J Sports Med

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ObjectiveThe study examined whether cognitive functioning, history of concussion (HOC), and sex predicted risk of sport concussion.DesignRetrospective study design. Predictive models were used to determine the predictive ability of each variable.SettingCanadian University.Participants708 data observations from 701 varsity athletes (41.2% female), representing 14 sports.Assessment of risk factorsTwo measures of cognitive functioning (mean reaction time and throughput [speed and accuracy]) were assessed using the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics testing battery. Categorical and continuous measures of HOC, and sex, were examined.Outcome measuresOccurrence of concussion after baseline testing.Main resultsHOC was a significant predictor for both sexes. For every previous concussion, the odds of sustaining another concussion increased by 1.5 (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 1.1, 2.1 [females]; 1.2, 1.9 [males]). Females with a HOC had twice the odds of sustaining another concussion than those without a HOC (CI: 1.1, 4.0). For males, the odds were three times (CI: 1.7, 5.6). Cognitive functioning and sex were not meaningful predictors.ConclusionsThis study supports previous findings that HOC is a risk factor and suggests that pre-injury cognitive functioning is not a risk factor for sport concussion. Assessing HOC in all athletes prior to their competitive season provides information regarding their risk of future sport concussion. Thus, it is important for clinicians to record HOC, and to encourage athletes to report concussions to ensure an accurate HOC record. Pre-injury cognitive screening of athletes is not recommended for assessing risk of future concussion.Competing interests Sandhya Mylabathula, Lynda Mainwaring, and Michael Hutchison None. Doug Richards is the Medical Director at the MacIntosh Sports Medicine Clinic at the University of TorontoPaul Comper is a clinical neuropsychologist consultant with the NHLPA and a member of the Concussion Working Group, but neither were related to the current research

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Gender differences in the recognition of spatially transformed figures: Behavioral data and event-related potentials (ERPs)

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Spatial processing in a mental rotation task: Differences between high and low math-anxiety individuals

Spatial processing in a mental rotation task: Differences between high and low math-anxiety individuals

Effects of line orientation in visual evoked potentials. Spatial dynamics, and gender differences of neural oblique effect

Pre-injury variables and risk of sport concussion

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