Sex differences in verbal and visual-spatial tasks under different hemispheric visual-field presentation conditions
Author(s)
Boyle, Gregory J
Neumann, David L
Furedy, John J
Westbury, H Rae
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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This paper reports sex differences in cognitive task performance that emerged when 39 Australian university undergraduates (19 men; 20 women) were asked to solve verbal (lexical) and visual-spatial cognitive matching tasks which varied in difficulty and visual field of presentation. Sex significantly interacted with task type, task difficulty, laterality, and changes in performance across trials. The results revealed that the significant individual-differences' variable of sex does not always emerge as a significant main effect, but instead in terms of significant interactions with other variables manipulated experimentally. ...
View more >This paper reports sex differences in cognitive task performance that emerged when 39 Australian university undergraduates (19 men; 20 women) were asked to solve verbal (lexical) and visual-spatial cognitive matching tasks which varied in difficulty and visual field of presentation. Sex significantly interacted with task type, task difficulty, laterality, and changes in performance across trials. The results revealed that the significant individual-differences' variable of sex does not always emerge as a significant main effect, but instead in terms of significant interactions with other variables manipulated experimentally. Our results show that sex differences must be taken into account when conducting experiments into human cognitive-task performance.
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View more >This paper reports sex differences in cognitive task performance that emerged when 39 Australian university undergraduates (19 men; 20 women) were asked to solve verbal (lexical) and visual-spatial cognitive matching tasks which varied in difficulty and visual field of presentation. Sex significantly interacted with task type, task difficulty, laterality, and changes in performance across trials. The results revealed that the significant individual-differences' variable of sex does not always emerge as a significant main effect, but instead in terms of significant interactions with other variables manipulated experimentally. Our results show that sex differences must be taken into account when conducting experiments into human cognitive-task performance.
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Journal Title
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Volume
110
Issue
2
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Subject
Sports science and exercise
Sensory processes, perception and performance
Cognitive and computational psychology