{"pk":25871,"title":"Strategy differences do not account for gender difference in mental rotation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Mental Rotations Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978) consistently produces large gender differences favoring\nmales (Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). This test requires participants to select two of four answer choices that are rotations\nof a probe stimulus. The incorrect choices (i.e., foils) are either mirror reflections of the probe or structurally different. Two\nexperiments investigated the hypothesis that males notice structural differences more than females and a strategy of capitalizing\non structural differences, accounts for the gender difference. Trials with structurally different foils showed higher accuracy and\nfaster reaction times for both males and females. A significant male advantage was found for both foil trial types; however, an\ninteraction between trial type and gender was not present. Moreover, males and females did not differ in reaction time. Thus,\nno evidence was found to suggest that strategy differences account for the large gender difference in mental rotation tasks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76h549kd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"","last_name":"Boon","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Santa Barbara","department":""},{"first_name":"Mary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hegarty","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Santa Barbara","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25871/galley/15495/download/"}]}