Psychology

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l rotation tests, altough not a significant difference but

still noticeable

Men are faster compared to females in mental rotation (Robert and Chevrier, 2003)

even when three-dimensional MRTs are given to them.These experimenters found this

after comparing the reaction times contrasting either two-dimensional or three-

dimensional mental rotation, trying to figure if dimension played an important role.

Males responded faster and more accurate than females in the majority of the

experiments. They were not able to disprove the classic male advantage over females on

the Mental Rotation Test.

Imagined participant rotation versus imagined object/array has superior spatial

updating performance as stated by Creem-Regehr (2003). In this experiment participants

had to update the position of objects and self rotations, he found that participants

performed better at situating themselves than when they were asked to update the objects

both required them to mentally rotate. But in a second experiment he found no
significant difference in performance between imagined and viewer translation. He

suggests that evolution experience should be taken into consideration for it is for humans

benefitial not losing sense of space and location and passed on genes have allowed

mankind keep and apply that experience.

In other interesting previous research regarding the male advantage, Bell and Saucier

(2004) found that there appears to be a strong correla...