Sex differences in the computation of traveling distance

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Title
Sex differences in the computation of traveling distance
Journal
SFB/TR Report
Author(s)
Kitsopoulos A Borioli J Porret S Brandner C
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Published
Issued date
09/2006
Volume
8
Number
011-09
Pages
15-16
Language
english
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Report Series of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Universität Brement/Universität Freiburg --- Old month value: september
Abstract
Path integration is known to provide information to keep track of spatial location. Surprisingly, few investigations concerning sex differences in computation of the traveling distance have been done. This work was aimed at analyzing the reproduction of both passive and active linear displacements in women and men. To this end, the displacement of blindfolded subjects was done in a wheelchair, then on foot, three times in each condition for a fixed distance. Copies of passive and active traveling distance, distance estimations and pointing responses towards the starting point were analyzed. In passive condition and comparatively to men, women error was larger. Whereas traveling distance was generally underestimated in women, it was overestimated in men. In active condition, no sex differences were observed. When blindfolded subjects have to estimate the traveling distance, the female error was larger than the male one. But, when subjects were asked to indicate the visual cue corresponding to the traveling distance, the male error was larger than the female one. Finally, pointing to the starting point (0°) after a whole-body rotation showed a larger deviation from 0° in men than in women. These results suggest that sex of the subjects influence brain computation of path integration information.
Keywords
Sex-differences-path integration-linear displacements
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