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Age and gender differences in spatial perspective taking
DOI:10.1007/s40520-015-0399-z.png)
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It is often necessary in daily experience to change one's point of view to adopt mentally the spatial perspective of other persons, learn the position of different objects in a new environment or even describe an environment to other persons. Hence, the ability to link spatial information from different perspectives seems to be necessary to orient ourselves in the space. Several studies have found gender-related differences in spatial reasoning in younger adults, but little is known about such effects in middle-aged and older adults. This research was designed to study how spatial perspective taking is affected by gender and age along the lifespan. The Perspective Taking/Spatial Orientation Test (PPT; Kozhevnikov and Hegarty [1]) was administered to groups of younger, middle-aged, and older adults, with females and males represented in each age group. The performance in the PPT decreased across age groups. All age groups had more errors in items that involved perspective changes of greater than 90A(0). Males performed better than females on most of the variables; however, no significant differences appeared in the interaction gender x age. The present findings showed the relevance of the degree perspective change in visuo-spatial abilities, especially in the older group. In relation with the gender, males outperformed females; however, the interaction gender x age did not show significant differences.
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Age
Gender
Spatial orientation
Perspective taking
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