Psychologists report that a gender gap in spatial skills starts in infancy

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 05:49 in Psychology & Sociology

Men tend to perform better than women at tasks that require rotating an object mentally, studies have indicated. Now, developmental psychologists at Pitzer College and UCLA have discovered that this type of spatial skill is present in infancy and can be found in boys as young as 5 months old...

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