The present study has two-fold aims: to investigate whether gender differences persist even
when more time is given to acquire spatial information; to assess the gender effect when the
retrieval phase requires recalling the pathway from the same or a different reference
perspective (egocentric or allocentric). Specifically, we analyse the performance of men and
women while learning a path from a map or by observing an experimenter in a real
environment. We then asked them to reproduce the learned path using the same reference …