APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Gender Difference on Direction Estimation Ability and Wayfinding Efficiency: Null Effect

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Cognitive

  • Mantong(Mable) Zhou
    UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences

Abstract

Males and females are asked to learn novel environments in the real world, estimate the direction and walk to the goal location. The result shows that there is no significant gender difference on sense of direction and wayfinding abilities. Previous research on gender difference in navigation might be biased.

Gender

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