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Response time differences between men and women during hand mental rotation.
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- Egocentric Dominance in Spatial Representations: The Role of Environmental Familiarity in Building Cognitive Maps.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological sex differences in mental rotation in young adults: a narrative review of event-related potentials.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effects of repeated trials on the strategy used for a hand laterality judgment task.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Functional perspectives in mental jigsaw puzzles: Insights from eye-tracking, questionnaire, and behavioral data.PloS one · 2025Article
- Implicit motor imagery: examining motor vs. visual strategies in laterality judgments among older adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Modelling response time in a mental rotation task by gender, physical activity, and task features.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Individual differences in processing ability to transform visual stimuli during the mental rotation task are closely related to individual motor adaptation ability.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Age-Related Differences in Strategy in the Hand Mental Rotation Task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Visual Hand Recognition in Hand Laterality and Self-Other Discrimination Tasks: Relationships to Autistic Traits and Positive Body Image.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study explored gender differences in correct response rates and response times on a task involving left or right arrow selection and another involving the transformation of mental rotation of the hand. We recruited 15 healthy, right-handed men (age 24.5 ± 6.4) and 15 healthy, right-handed women (age 21.3 ± 4.9). For the tasks, we used pictures of left and right arrows and 32 hand pictures (left and right, palm and back) placed in cons (each at 45° from 0° to 315°). Hand and arrow pictures alternated and were shown at random. Participants decided as quickly as possible whether each picture was left or right. To compare the time taken for the transformation of mental rotation of the hand, we subtracted the average arrow response time from that for the left and right hand pictures for each participant. Correct response rates did not differ significantly between men and women or left and right for either arrow or hand pictures. Regardless of gender, the response time was longer for the left arrow picture than right arrow picture. The response time for the hand picture was longest for both men and women for pictures at rotation angles that were most difficult to align with participants' hands. While there was no difference between men's responses for left and right hand pictures, the responses of women were longer for left than right hand pictures and also than those of men. These findings suggest that both men and women mainly perform the hand mental rotation task with implicit motor imagery. On the other hand, the gender difference in performance might be explained by the difference in balance with other strategies, such as visual imagery, and by cognitive, neurophysiological, and morphological differences.
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