title: Self-rated right-left confusability and performance on the Money Road-Map Test.
abstract: This study assessed the relationship between self-rated right-left confusability and performance on the Money Road-Map Test (MRMT). Eighty-six undergraduate university students (44 women and 42 men) rated right-left subjective confusability using a questionnaire, and then completed the MRMT. Low- and high-confusability groups were determined using self-rated confusability scores. The high-confusability participants were less accurate and slower than the low-confusability participants in completing the MRMT. Self-confusability ratings significantly correlated with both accuracy scores and completion times on the MRMT. Although, women showed a significantly greater inclination than men to judge themselves as being more prone to confusion in right-left discrimination, the male advantage was not observed in terms of accuracy of response: there was a significant difference only in the completion time on the MRMT.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, Ehime University, Bunkyo-cho 3, Matsuyama, 790-8577, Japan. yamabcd@ed.ehime-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hikari
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult