Sex Difference On Spatial Skill Test Linked To Brain Structure

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 07:28 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 new 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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