Sailing experience and sex as correlates of spatial ability

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 98, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 1409-1421

  Devlin, Ann Sloan ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243167925     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.98.3.1409-1421     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. AHRENTZEN, S., & GROAT, L. N. (1992) Rethinking architectural education: patriarchal conventions and alternative visions from the perspectives of women faculty. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 9, 95-111.
2. BERENBAUM, S. A., & HINES, M. (1992) Early androgens are related to childhood sex-typed toy preferences. Psychological Science, 3, 203-206.
3. BUSS, D. M. (1995) Psychological sex differences: origins through sexual selection. American Psychologist, 50, 164-168.
4. CECIL, E. A., PAUL, R. J., & OLINES, R. A. (1973) Perceived importance of selected variables used to evaluate male and female job applicants. Personnel Psychology, 26, 397-404.
5. COLLINS, D. W., & KIMURA, D. (1997) A large sex difference on a two-dimensional mental rotation task. Behavioral Neuroscience, 111, 845-849.
6. DABBS, J. M., CHANG, E-L., STRONG, R. A., & MILUN, R. (1998) Spatial ability, navigation strat egy, and geographic knowledge among men and women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19, 89-98.
7. DELISI, R., & CAMMARANO, D. M. (1996) Computer experience and gender differences in undergraduate mental rotation performance. Computers in Human Behavior, 12, 351-361.
8. DEVLIN, A. S. (1997) Architects: gender-role and hiring decisions. Psychological Reports, 81, 667-676.
9. GALEA, L. A., & KIMURA, D. (1993) Sex differences in route-learning. Personality and Individual Differences, 14, 53-65.
10. GESCHWIND, N., & GALABURDA, A. M. (1985) Cerebral lateralization: biological mechanisms, associations, and pathology: I. A hypothesis and a program for research, Archives of Neurology, 42, 428-459.
11. GESCHWIND, N., & GALABURDA, A. M. (1987) Cerebral lateralization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. GLICK, P., ZION, C., & NELSON, C. (1988) What mediates sex discrimination in hiring decisions? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 178-186.
13. GORDON, H. W., & LEE, P. L. (1993) No differences in cognitive performance between phases of the menstrual cycle. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 18, 521-531.
14. HALPERN, D. F. (1986) Sex differences in cognitive abilities, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
15. HALPERN, D. F., & WRIGHT, T. M. (1996) A process oriented model of cognitive sex differences. Learning and Individual Differences, 8, 3-24.
16. HARRIS, L. J. (1978) Sex differences in spatial ability: possible environmental, genetic, and neurological factors. In M. Kinsbourne (Ed.), Asymmetrical functions of the brain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univer. Press. Pp. 405-522.
17. HARRIS, L. J. (1981) Sex-related variations in spatial skill. In L. S. Liben, A. H. Patterson, & N. Newcombe (Eds.), Spatial representation and behavior across the life span. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 83-125.
18. HASSLER, M. (1993) Anomalous dominance, immune parameters, and spatial ability. International Journal of Neuroscience, 68, 145-156.
19. HAUSMANN, M., SLABBEKOORN, D., VAN GOOZEN, S. H. M., COHEN-KETTENIS, P. T., & GUNTURKUN, O. (2000) Sex hormones affect spatial abilities during the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Neuroscience, 114, 1245-1250.
20. HYDE, J. S. (1981) How large are cognitive gender differences? American Psychologist, 36, 892-901.
21. HYDE, J. S. (1990) Meta-analysis and the psychology of gender differences. Signs, 16, 55-73.
22. JAMES, T. W., & KIMURA, D. (1997) Sex differences in remembering the locations of objects in an array: location-shifts versus location exchanges. Evolution and Human Behavior, 18, 155-163.
23. KIMURA, D., & HAMPSON, E. (1993) Neural and hormonal mechanisms mediating sex differences in cognition. In P. A. Vernon (Ed.), Biological approaches to the study of human intelligence, Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Pp. 375-397.
24. LAWTON, C. A. (1994) Gender differences in way-finding strategies: relationship to spatial ability and spatial anxiety. Sex Roles, 20, 765-779.
25. LINN, M. C., & PETERSEN, A. C. (1985) Emergence and characterization of sex differences in spatial ability: a meta-analysis. Child Development, 56, 1479-1498.
26. LUNNEBORG, C. E., & LUNNEBORG, P. W. (1984) Contribution of sex-differentiated experience to spatial and mechanical reasoning abilities. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 59, 107-113.
27. LUNNEBORG, P. W. (1982) Sex differences in self-assessed everyday spatial abilities. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 55, 200-202.
28. MALINOWSKI, J. C. (2001) Mental rotation and real-world wayfinding. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 92, 19-30.
29. MASTERS, M. S. (1998) The gender difference on the Mental Rotations Test is not due to performance factors. Memory & Cognition, 26, 444-448.
30. MASTERS, M. S., & SANDERS, B. (1993) Is the gender difference in mental rotation disappearing? Behavior Genetics, 23, 337-341.
31. MCBURNEY, D. H., GAULIN, S. J. C., DEVINENI, T., & ADAMS, C. (1997) Superior spatial memory of women: stronger evidence for the gathering hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior, 18, 165-174.
32. MCCLURG, P. A., & CHAILLE, C. (1987) Computer games: environments for developing spatial cognition. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 3, 95-111.
33. MCCORMICK, C. M., & TEILLON, S. M. (2001) Menstrual cycle variation in spatial ability: relation to salivary cortisol levels. Hormones and Behavior, 39, 29-38.
34. MCGEE, M. G. (1979) Human spatial abilities: sources of sex differences. New York: Praeger.
35. MCGEE, M. G. (1982) Spatial abilities: the influence of genetic factors. In M. Potegal (Ed.), Spatial abilities: development and physiological foundations. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 199-222.
36. NASH, S. C. (1975) The relationship among sex-role stereotyping, sex-role preference, and the sex difference in spatial visualization. Sex Roles, 1, 15-32.
37. NEISSER, U., BOODOO, G., BOUCHARD, T. J., JR., BOYKIN, A. W., BRODY, N., CECI, S. J., HALPERN, D. F., LOEHLIN, J. C., PERLOFF, R., STERNBERG, R., & URBINA, S. (1996) Inielligence: knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 77-101.
38. NEWCOMBE, N., BANDURA, M. M., & TAYLOR, D. G. (1983) Sex differences in spatial ability and spatial activities. Sex Roles, 9, 377-386.
39. NEWCOMBE, N., & DUBAS, J. S. (1992) A longitudinal study of predictors of spatial ability in adolescent females. Child Development, 63, 37-46.
40. NORDVIK, H., & AMPONSAH, B. (1998) Gender differences in spatial abilities and spatial activity among university students in an egalitarian educational system. Sex Roles, 38, 1009-1023.
41. OLSON, D. M., ELIOT, J., & HARDY, R. C. (1988) Relationships between activities and sex-related differences in performance on spatial tests. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 67, 223-232.
42. PETERSON, J. M., & LANSKY, L. M. (1983) Success in architecture: a research note. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57, 222.
43. PHILLIPS, K., & SILVERMAN, I. (1997) Differences in the relationship of menstrual cycle phase to spatial performance on two- and three-dimensional tasks. Hormones and Behavior, 32, 167-175.
44. QUAISER-POHL, C., & LEHMANN, W. (2002) Girls' spatial abilities: charting the contributions of experiences and attitudes in different academic groups. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 72, 245-260.
45. REINISCH, J. (1981) Prenatal exposure to synthetic progestins increases potential for aggression in humans. Science, 211, 1171-1173.
46. RICHARDSON, J. T. E. (1994) Gender differences in mental rotation. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 78, 435-448.
47. ROSENBERG, L., & PARK, S. (2002) Verbal and spatial functions across the menstrual cycle in healthy young women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 27, 835-841.
48. SERBIN, L. A., & CONNOR, J. M. (1979) Sex-typing of children's play preferences and patterns of cognitive performance. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 134, 315-316.
49. SHERMAN, J. A. (1978) Sex-related cognitive differences: an essay on theory and evidence. Springfield, IL: Thomas.
50. SILVERMAN, I., & PHILLIPS, K. (1993) Effects of estrogen changes during the menstrual cycle on spatial performance. Ethology 6- Sociobiology, 14, 257-270.
51. THOMAS, H., & KAIL, R. (1991) Sex differences in speed of mental rotation and the X-linked genetic hypothesis. Intelligence, 15, 17-32.
52. UNGER, R., & CRAWFORD, M. (1992) Women and gender: a feminist psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
53. VANDENBERG, S., & KUSE, A. (1978) Mental rotation: a group test of three-dimensional spatial visualization. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 47, 599-604.
54. VOYER, D., NOLAN, C., & VOYER, S. (2000) The relation between experience and spatial performance in men and women. Sex Roles, 43, 891-915.
55. VOYER, D., VOYER, S., & BRYDEN, M. P. (1995) Magnitude of sex differences in spatial abilities: a meta-analysis and consideration of critical variables. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 250-270.
56. WARD, S. L., NEWCOMBE, N., & OVERTON, W. F. (1986) Turn left at the church, or three miles north: a study of direction giving and sex differences. Environment and Behavior, 18, 192-213