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Hirnstein, Marco; Bayer, Ulrike; Ellison, Amanda; Hausmann, Markus – Neuropsychologia, 2011
The underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of the ability to discriminate left from right are hardly explored. Clinical studies from patients with impairments of left-right discrimination (LRD) and neuroimaging data suggest that the left angular gyrus is particularly involved in LRD. Moreover, it is argued that the often reported sex…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Females, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Swarlis, Linda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The test scores of spatial ability for women lag behind those of men in many spatial tests. On the Mental Rotations Test (MRT), a significant gender gap has existed for over 20 years and continues to exist. High spatial ability has been linked to efficiencies in typical computing tasks including Web and database searching, text editing, and…
Descriptors: Females, Visualization, Genetics, Information Seeking