Current research appears to suggest the opposite: Higher testosterone correlates to spacial cognative abilities while more frequent errors/ slower reaction time negatively correlate with testosterone.Zen wrote:Dear Mark,
Could you please get Dr. McCormo, further to his research on "Saccades, Perception, and Shmups", to (totally unbiased like) prove correct my suspicions,
regarding Testosterone and the "Hyper Male Brain", as it pertains to variations in visual perception.
This will put to rest, once and for all, that I genuinely do suffer "Garegga Blindness", thus proving that all farmers scoring higher than me on that accursed shmup, are actually "girly-men".
Ta.
Your pal in science,
Zen.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330791/Spatial cognitive abilities as well as general cognition and memory decline with aging together with the testosterone levels. During the productive ages and even in early adulthood, men generally outperform women in spatial abilities (Linn and Petersen, 1985). Especially, mental rotation shows a clear sex difference in favor of men. Not surprisingly, observational studies have focused on the association between testosterone and spatial abilities. Some studies have found a positive relationship between testosterone and mental rotation in men (Silverman et al., 1999). Error rate as well as the reaction time negatively correlated with testosterone (Hooven et al., 2004).