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Direct linkSylvia Gabel; Aldin Alijagic; Özün Keskin; Andreas Gegenfurtner – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Previous research has examined teacher attitudes toward student gender and teacher eye movements when looking at girls and boys in classrooms. However, to date, these two lines of research are rather separated. To better understand the co-occurrence of visual and attitudinal preferences, we investigated whether pre-service teachers' attitudes are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Teacher Student Relationship, Preferences
Diaz Abrahan, Verónika; Sarli, Leticia; Shifres, Favio; Justel, Nadia – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Research on creativity is a field of great relevance since it studies our capacity to create, the root of all innovation and problem solving. Some factors, like personality, motivation and artistic knowledge, are known to influence creativity. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of music expertise and gender on creativity and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Creative Thinking, Musicians, Expertise
Kotsopoulos, Donna; Makosz, Samantha; Zambrzycka, Joanna; Dickson, Brandon A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
An enduring challenge in visual-spatial research has been to identify the factors contributing to individual differences in ability. This research investigated the overall, verbal, and nonverbal visual-spatial ability of 61 (34 boys) three- to five-year-olds (M[subscript age] = 57.3 months; SD = 7.9) and the following factors known to be related…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Preschool Children
Boone, Alexander P.; Hegarty, Mary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The paper-and-pencil Mental Rotation Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978) consistently produces large sex differences favoring men (Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). In this task, participants select 2 of 4 answer choices that are rotations of a probe stimulus. Incorrect choices (i.e., foils) are either mirror reflections of the probe or…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Tests
Jansen, Petra; Ellinger, Jan; Lehmann, Jennifer – Educational Psychology, 2018
The main goal of this study was to investigate the influence of an established school programme with a high amount of physical education on visual-spatial ability in a secondary school. One hundred and forty-four adolescents, 69 from sport classes and 75 from regular classes, solved a cognitive processing speed task and a mental rotation task. The…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Task Analysis
Wang, Lu; Carr, Martha – Educational Psychologist, 2014
In this review, a new model that is grounded in information-processing theory is proposed to account for gender differences in spatial ability. The proposed model assumes that the relative strength of working memory, as expressed by the ratio of visuospatial working memory to verbal working memory, influences the type of strategies used on spatial…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Gender Differences, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis
Burman, Douglas D.; Minas, Taylor; Bolger, Donald J.; Booth, James R. – Brain and Language, 2013
Previous studies have shown that the "strength" of connectivity between regions can vary depending upon the cognitive demands of a task. In this study, the "location" of task-dependent connectivity from the primary visual cortex (V1) was examined in 43 children (ages 9-15) performing visual tasks; connectivity maxima were identified for a visual…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Children, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Rahman, Qazi; Bakare, Monsurat; Serinsu, Ceydan – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Previous research has demonstrated a female advantage, albeit imperfectly, on tests of object location memory where object identity information is readily available. However, spatial and visual elements are often confounded in the experimental tasks used. Here spatial and visual memory performance was compared in 30 men and 30 women by presenting…
Descriptors: Memory, Intelligence Tests, Scores, Gender Differences
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
Lowrie, Tom; Diezmann, Carmel M. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The capacity to solve tasks that contain high concentrations of visual-spatial information, including graphs, maps and diagrams, is becoming increasingly important in educational contexts as well as everyday life. This research examined gender differences in the performance of students solving graphics tasks from the Graphical Languages in…
Descriptors: Maps, Graphs, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences
Download full textMurrah, William M.; Chen, Wei-Bing; Cameron, Claire E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Recent educational studies have found evidence that measures of fine motor skills are predictive of educational outcomes. However, the precise nature of fine motor skills has received little attention in these studies. With evidence mounting that fine motor skills are an important indicator of school readiness, investigating the nature of this…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Achievement
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
