title: Usefulness of the group-comparison method to demonstrate sex differences in spatial orientation and spatial visualization in older men and women.
abstract: This paper reports an analysis of sex differences in cognitive test scores covering the dimensions of spatial orientation and spatial visualization in groups of 6 older men and 6 women matched for speed of performance on a maze test and level of performance on a spatial relations task. Older men were more proficient solving spatial problems using the body as a referent, whereas there was no significant difference between the sexes in imagining spatial displacement. Matched comparisons appear a useful adjunct to population research to understand the type(s) of cognitive processes where differential performance by the sexes is observed.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009068:Movement; D009949:Orientation; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012737:Sex Factors; D013028:Space Perception; D014796:Visual Perception