For example, the left side specializes in language while the right side is good at visual and spatial tasks.
Even at their best, the women as a group did not perform as well as men do, on average, with spatial tasks, the researchers said.
The right side of the brain was believed to handle spatial tasks and not to be involved in language.
These are regions on both sides of the brain that carry out visual and spatial tasks.
In general, boys are better at spatial and abstract tasks, girls at communication.
She said then that women were better at spatial tasks when their estrogen levels were lowest.
Performance in mental rotation and similar spatial tasks is affected by gender expectations.
Normal individuals experience interference due to their intact processing of both musical and spatial tasks, while amusics do not.
And perhaps there is a better way to teach mathematics to women based on their cognitive style of learning spatial tasks.
Children have decreased specificity in skills than adults, so they show greater activation during spatial tasks.