Abstract
The study examined whether women excel at tasks which require processing the identity of objects information as has been suggested in the context of the well-known object location memory task. In a computer-simulated task, university students were shown simulated indoor and outdoor house scenes. After studying a scene the students were presented with two images. One was the original image and the other a modified version in which one object was either rotated by ninety degrees or substituted with a similar looking object. The participants were asked to indicate the original image. The main finding was that no sex effect was obtained in this task. The female and male students did not differ on a verbal ability test, and their 2D:4D ratios were found to be comparable.
Highlights
Sex differences in spatial ability have been widely reported in the literature on human spatial cognition [1, 2]
The present study examines a corollary of this hypothesis: If females were better at object exchanges due to a superior object identifications, women ought to excel in other task relying on object identity information such as the present scene task which manipulated object identity
The scene task was analysed using a mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) with sex as betweenparticipants factor and background, memory task and placement as within-participants factors
Summary
Sex differences in spatial ability have been widely reported in the literature on human spatial cognition [1, 2]. The participants were asked to indicate the original image Note that this procedure tested the students’ knowledge of object identity since the objects were always presented in the same location. James and Kimura [16] hypothesized that sex differences in the object exchange task may be the result of women’s greater ability to process the identity of objects. The present study examines a corollary of this hypothesis: If females were better at object exchanges due to a superior object identifications, (relative to the male students) women ought to excel in other task relying on object identity information such as the present scene task which manipulated object identity (but not object location)
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