TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of sex steroids on spatial performance
T2 - a review and an experimental clinical investigation.
AU - Liben, Lynn S.
AU - Susman, Elizabeth J.
AU - Finkelstein, Jordan W.
AU - Chinchilli, Vernon M.
AU - Kunselman, Susan
AU - Schwab, Jacqueline
AU - Dubas, Judith Semon
AU - Demers, Laurence M.
AU - Lookingbill, Georgia
AU - Darcangelo, M. Rose
AU - Krogh, Holleen R.
AU - Kulin, Howard E.
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PY - 2002/3
Y1 - 2002/3
N2 - Males typically surpass females in spatial performance, an outcome that may be linked to testosterone and estrogen. The authors (a) review physiological mechanisms, developmental periods, and past empirical work relevant to sex steroids' effects on human spatial performance and (b) report an experimental study of the role of actively circulating sex steroids in adolescents being treated for delayed puberty (N = 55; mean age = 13.70 years). Sex steroids (simulating early, middle, and late puberty) and placebos were given alternately over 21 months and spatial tests were given every 3 months. Spatial performance showed traditional sex differences but did not vary with levels of actively circulating sex steroids.
AB - Males typically surpass females in spatial performance, an outcome that may be linked to testosterone and estrogen. The authors (a) review physiological mechanisms, developmental periods, and past empirical work relevant to sex steroids' effects on human spatial performance and (b) report an experimental study of the role of actively circulating sex steroids in adolescents being treated for delayed puberty (N = 55; mean age = 13.70 years). Sex steroids (simulating early, middle, and late puberty) and placebos were given alternately over 21 months and spatial tests were given every 3 months. Spatial performance showed traditional sex differences but did not vary with levels of actively circulating sex steroids.
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U2 - 10.1037/0012-1649.38.2.236
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.38.2.236
M3 - Article
C2 - 11881759
AN - SCOPUS:19044380848
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 38
SP - 236
EP - 253
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 2
ER -