Gender-related differences in spatial ability and the k factor of general spatial ability in a population of academically talented students

Stumpf, Heinrich; Eliot, John

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(95)00029-6

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“…Moreover, as demonstrated in previous studies (Saccuzzo, Craig, Johnson, & Larson, 1996;Stumpf & Eliot, 1995;Stumpf & Jackson, 1994), males outperform females on spatial ability tasks. This advantage of males in spatial tasks is obvious not only in adult subjects but is present in 4-and 5-year-old preschool children (Levine, Huttenlocher, Taylor, & Langrock, 1999;Livesey & Intili, 1996).…”

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Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability

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confidence: 49%

Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability

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“…The present analysis showing a male advantage of 2.9 IQ points in g calculated as a higher order factor provides further evidence for this conclusion. Other relatively recent results supporting the conclusion that among adults, males score a little higher on general intelligence, however this is defined, than females have been reported by Stumpf and Eliot (1995), Colom and Garcia-Lopez (2002), Lynn and Chan (2002), Nyborg (2003), and Deary et al (2003).…”

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Sex differences on three factors identified in Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices

2004

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“…Classically, investigations into these visuospatial abilities identify two primary, but highly related, spatial capacities within normal human populations (Carroll, 1993;Just & Carpenter, 1985;Stumpf & Eliot, 1995).…”

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Enhancing visuospatial performance through video game training to increase learning in visuospatial science domains

Sanchez

2011

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Although previous research has demonstrated that performance on visuospatial assessments can be enhanced through relevant experience, an unaddressed question is whether such experience also produces a similar increase in target domains (such as science learning) where visuospatial abilities are directly relevant for performance. In the present study, participants completed either spatial or nonspatial training via interaction with video games and were then asked to read and learn about the geologic topic of plate tectonics. Results replicate the benefit of playing appropriate video games in enhancing visuospatial performance and demonstrate that this facilitation also manifests itself in learning science topics that are visuospatial in nature. This novel result suggests that visuospatial training not only can impact performance on measures of spatial functioning, but also can affect performance in content areas in which these abilities are utilized.

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Gender-related differences in spatial ability and the k factor of general spatial ability in a population of academically talented students

Cited by 59 publications

References 24 publications

Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability

Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability

Sex differences on three factors identified in Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices

Enhancing visuospatial performance through video game training to increase learning in visuospatial science domains

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