This article considers 3 claims that cognitive sex differences account for the differential
representation of men and women in high-level careers in mathematics and science:(a) …

Adolescence is a period of life in which the sense of 'self'changes profoundly. Here, we
review recent behavioural and neuroimaging studies on adolescent development of the self …

The existence of a sex difference in spatial thinking, notably on tasks involving mental
rotation, has been a topic of considerable research and debate. We review this literature …

Groundbreaking research opens a new chapter in the Nature vs. Nurture debate The 2010
smash hit arrives in mass-market paperback! Turning conventional thinking about gender …

Spatial representation and thinking have evolutionary importance for any mobile organism.
In addition, they help reasoning in domains that are not obviously spatial, for example …

How do infants learn to perceive the backs of objects that they see only from a limited
viewpoint? Infants'3-dimensional object completion abilities emerge in conjunction with …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human
development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants …

A sex difference on mental-rotation tasks has been demonstrated repeatedly, but not in
children less than 4 years of age. To demonstrate mental rotation in human infants, we …

Three-to 4-month-old female and male human infants were administered a two-dimensional
mental-rotation task similar to those given to older children and adults. Infants were …