Efectos diferenciales de un prolongado entrenamiento en una tarea espacial entre hombres y mujeres

Abstract

This work is adressed to check the effect of a long training in a computarized task, where one of the main processes involved is mental rotation. 63 university students, 44 women and 19 men solved a set of computarized spatial problems during 13 weekly sessions. Only the results of the sessions 1, 7 and 13 were computed. Results show that, although in all the experimental sessions men are faster and they make less errors than women, differences of time and errors among sexes are minimized when the training increases. A closer view of the results provides some cues that point to factors of social, cultural nature, and not so much to biological explanations.