SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: December 10, 2008
EXCERPT: "Men tend to perform better than women at tasks that require rotating an object mentally, studies have indicated. Now, developmental psychologists at Pitzer College and UCLA have discovered that this type of spatial skill is present in infancy and can be found in boys as young as 5 months old." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Moore DS, Johnson SP. Mental rotation in human infants: a sex difference. Psychol Sci. 2008 Nov;19(11):1063-6.
Quinn PC, Liben LS. A sex difference in mental rotation in young infants. Psychol Sci. 2008 Nov;19(11):1067-70.
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