Sex Difference on Spatial Skill Test Linked to Brain Structure
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 08:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A University of Iowa study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill.
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