Perspective changing in primary and secondary learning: A gender difference study

Piccardi, Laura; Risetti, Monica; Nori, Raffaella; Tanzilli, Antonio; Bernardi, Livia; Guariglia, Cecilia

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2010.11.003

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“…The feeling of incompetence in solving everyday environmental problems may arise from the longer learning time that women need to acquire spatial information. In fact, Piccardi et al (2008Piccardi et al ( , 2011b showed that gender differences disappear when women and men are allowed to navigate for as long as they need to learn a pathway and also that in delayed recall of a well-learned place, no differences emerged among sexes. Our results demonstrated that familiarity with the environment helps to recognize landmarks more easily and to locate points of reference and judge distances more accurately.…”

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I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

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The present study aimed to analyse beliefs that men and women have with respect to their sense of direction (SOD) and whether they correlate with spatial environmental task performance. Eighty-four students filled in the short version of the Familiarity and Spatial Cognitive Style Scale to evaluate beliefs on their SOD, knowledge of the city (TK), spatial ability (SA) and wayfinding (WA) and performed three spatial environmental tasks. Results showed that gender did not predict the performance on the spatial environmental tasks, whereas it can be predicted by participants' beliefs related to their SOD and TK. The findings point out the need to identify specific training aimed at improving women's metacognitive skills in order to delete or reduce gender differences in SA.

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I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

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“…In this case, they have no movement information, just a sequence of individual lights no binding among them. This last adaptation failed to find the same navigational effects found in clinical studies when the traditional WalCT was used (Bianchini et al, 2010;Bianchini, Di Vita et al, 2014;Piccardi et al, 2010;Piccardi, Iaria et al, 2011;Piccardi, Risetti et al, 2011). The VR-WalCT could be an advantageous alternative in which participants receive both visual and motion information by means of an avatar.…”

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“…We used an enlarged version of the WalCT (Piccardi et al, 2008), that is the M-WalCT (7 Â 6 m; used in Piccardi (Piccardi, Risetti et al, 2011;Piccardi et al, 2014) in which 18 squares (3 Â 3 cm) are placed on a carpet (25 Â 60 cm) in a scattered array (Fig. 1a).…”

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“…The question then arises of what specific effects the various modalities of acquiring spatial information have on the characteristics of the spatial representations generated (e.g., Piccardi, Risetti et al, 2011;Denis, Pazzaglia, Cornoldi, & Bertolo, 1999). Recently, thanks to the greater opportunities for studying spatial cognition provided by technological innovations, ''real'' and virtual environments have been compared to assess whether acquiring spatial information in virtual reality involves the same ability.…”

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“…Some of this research has focused on assessing navigational performance in the Walking Corsi Test (WalCT) (e.g., Piccardi, Risetti et al, 2011). This test (Piccardi et al, 2008) is a large version of the Corsi Block-tapping Task (Corsi, 1972).…”

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Perspective changing in primary and secondary learning: A gender difference study

Cited by 43 publications

References 29 publications

I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

The virtual reality Walking Corsi Test

Mental imagery rotation and graph comprehension of IS‐LM macroeconomic models

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