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Sex differences in strategy and performance on computerized neuropsychological tests as related to gender identity and age at puberty

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Summary, in English

Neuropsychological sex differences have since long been under debate. Support for the relation between behavioral differences and biological variables like hormone influence is, however, emerging. Sixteen men and sixteen women, all university students, were tested with computerized neuropsychological tests (APT), the Bem Sexual Role Inventory, and asked about pubertal age. The results were in line with earlier findings of sex differences in neuropsychological tests, men being faster and women more cautious. The assumption that women tend to use left-hemispheric, verbal/serial strategies also in spatial tasks was also partly supported. In women, late onset of puberty was related to better spatial performance, and there were also more intercorrelations between verbal and spatial tests in the female than in the male group, indicating that women use less specific strategies (more g-factor intelligence) in problem solving, or that aptitudes are less compartmentalized in women than in men.

Department/s

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

81-90

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volume

41

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Neurology
  • Psychology

Keywords

  • Cognitive sex differences
  • Computerized tests
  • Maturity rate
  • Neuropsychology
  • Sexual role identity

Status

Published

Research group

  • Forensic Psychiatry, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9450