[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

What determines our navigational abilities?

T Wolbers, M Hegarty - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
The ability to find one's way in our complex environments represents one of the most
fundamental cognitive functions. Although involving basic perceptual and memory related …

Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning

M Hegarty, DR Montello, AE Richardson, T Ishikawa… - Intelligence, 2006 - Elsevier
Most psychometric tests of spatial ability are paper-and-pencil tasks at the “figural” scale of
space, in that they involve inspecting, imagining or mentally transforming small shapes or …

[图书][B] The sociology of gender: An introduction to theory and research

AS Wharton - 2009 - books.google.com
Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social
practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an …

Measuring variation in cognition

C Rowe, SD Healy - Behavioral Ecology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Across a range of disciplines, researchers are becoming increasingly interested in studying
the variation in cognitive abilities found within populations. Behavioral ecology is no …

[图书][B] Pink brain, blue brain: How small differences grow into troublesome gaps-and what we can do about it

L Eliot - 2010 - books.google.com
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 …

Sex differences in cortical thickness mapped in 176 healthy individuals between 7 and 87 years of age

ER Sowell, BS Peterson, E Kan, RP Woods… - Cerebral …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Findings from previous magnetic resonance imaging studies of sex differences in gray
matter have been inconsistent, with some showing proportionally increased gray matter in …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro-and microstructural MRI findings

LB Norbom, L Ferschmann, N Parker, I Agartz… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Through dynamic transactional processes between genetic and environmental factors,
childhood and adolescence involve reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex …

Gender differences in spatial ability: Implications for STEM education and approaches to reducing the gender gap for parents and educators

D Reilly, DL Neumann, G Andrews - Visual-spatial ability in STEM …, 2017 - Springer
While men and women do not differ in levels of general intelligence, gender differences do
exist for more specific cognitive abilities. In particular, gender gaps in spatial ability are the …

A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis

LM Harrison, DWA Noble, MD Jennions - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific
thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed …