Sex differences and the effect of instruction on reorientation abilities by humans.
This study examined whether differences in the amount of information provided to men and women, in the form of verbal instruction, influenced their encoding during a reorientation task. When a navigator needs to orient, featural (e.g., colour or texture) and geometry (e.g., metric information) are u...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 566 - 577 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=129511165&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 129511165 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2018 vid: 46 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 129511165 10.3758/s13421-017-0783-3 ppf: 566 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 593KB tig: atl: Sex differences and the effect of instruction on reorientation abilities by humans. aug: au: Siemens, Megan N. Kelly, Debbie M. affil: Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada su: Conflict (Psychology) Sex distribution Task performance Mental orientation Space perception Prompts (Psychology) sug: subj: Conflict (Psychology) Sex distribution Task performance Mental orientation Space perception Prompts (Psychology) keyword: Feature Geometry Human Reorientation Sex differences Task instructions Feature Geometry Human Reorientation Sex differences Task instructions ab: This study examined whether differences in the amount of information provided to men and women, in the form of verbal instruction, influenced their encoding during a reorientation task. When a navigator needs to orient, featural (e.g., colour or texture) and geometry (e.g., metric information) are used to determine which direction to begin traveling. The current study used a spatial reorientation task to examine how men and women use featural and geometric cues and whether the content of the task’s instructions influenced how these cues were used. Participants were trained to find a target location in a rectangular room with distinctive objects situated at each corner. Once the participants were accurately locating the target, various tests manipulating the spatial information were conducted. We found both men and women encoded the featural cues, and even though the features provided reliable information, participants generally showed an encoding of geometry. However, when participants were not provided with any information about the spatial aspects of the task in the instructions, they failed to encode geometry. We also found that women used distant featural cues as landmarks when the featural cue closest to the target was removed, whereas men did not. Yet, when the two types of cues were placed in conflict, both sexes weighed featural cues more heavily than geometric cues. The content of the task instructions also influenced how cues were relied upon in this conflict situation. Our results have important implications for our understanding of how spatial cues are used for reorientation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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