Gender Gap In Spatial Skills Starts In Infancy

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

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Moore DS, Johnson SP. Mental rotation in human infants: a sex difference. Psychol Sci. 2008 Nov;19(11):1063-6.