@article{ref1,
title="Sex differences in components of imagined perspective transformation",
journal="Acta psychologica",
year="2012",
author="Gardner, Mark R. and Sorhus, Ingrid and Edmonds, Caroline J. and Potts, Rosalind",
volume="140",
number="1",
pages="1-6",
abstract="Little research to date has examined whether sex differences in spatial ability extend to the mental self rotation involved in taking on a third party perspective. This question was addressed in the present study by assessing components of imagined perspective transformations in twenty men and twenty women. Participants made speeded left-right judgements about the hand in which an object was held by front- and back- facing schematic human figures in an &quot;own body transformation task.&quot; Response times were longer when the figure did not share the same spatial orientation as the participant, and were substantially longer than those made for a control task requiring left-right judgements about the same stimuli from the participant's own point of view. A sex difference in imagined perspective transformation favouring males was found to be restricted to the speed of imagined self rotation, and was not observed for components indexing readiness to take a third party point of view, nor in left-right confusion. These findings indicate that the range of spatial abilities for which a sex difference has been established should be extended to include imagined perspective transformations. They also suggest that imagined perspective transformations may not draw upon those empathic social-emotional perspective taking processes for which females show an advantage.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6918",
doi="10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.02.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.02.002"
}