PMID: 16509110Mar 3, 2006Paper

Sex differences in left/right confusion

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
Kirsten JordanMichael Peters

Abstract

In agreement with the literature, females (n=269) gave themselves significantly poorer ratings than males (n=164) in evaluating their ability to make fast and accurate left/right judgments. In order to evaluate the ecological validity of the self-ratings, subjects were tested on a task that required fast and accurate left/right judgments, on a mental rotation task, and on a task that required navigation of a virtual maze. The correlations between the performances and self-ratings were computed. Both males and females who gave themselves very poor LRC (left/right confusion) ratings had significantly lower accuracy scores on the left/right judgement task than males and females with average ratings, but there was no sex-specific relation between LRC ratings and left/right judgements that would explain why females give themselves lower LRC ratings. For females only, a weak correlation between LRC scores and the learning of the virtual maze was observed, but no significant correlations were observed between LRC scores and mental rotation performance. We conclude that self-ratings on left/right confusion questions, although they yield reliable sex differences, are poor predictors of actual performance on spatial tasks that involve le...Continue Reading

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