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righthanded childrenit can be expected by probability alone that. more
right handed children with lefthemisphere damage would switch.
righthemisphere dominance than would switch in he reverse.
direction.That such switching can take placehowevercannot be used as.
grounds for predicting cognitive deficits or differences in cerebral.
organization in the general population of lefthanders.. High estrogen
levels are associated with relatively depressed. spatial ability as well as
enhanced articulatory and motor capability.. Kimura showed that men s
spatial scores fluctuate with testosterone. levelsmen with lower
testosterone levels get the highest scores.So. there appears to be an
optimal level of testosteroneand increasing. the level is actually
detrimental to cognitive performance.. Furthermoremen with lower
average levels of testosterone do better. on both spatial tests and on
mathematical reasoning tests than do. those with higher levels.A
reasonable question is whether there is. also a relation be tween
testosterone level and spatial ability in. women.There is.Women with
higher levels do betteragain suggesting. that some optimal hormone
level benefits at least some cognitive. activities.. As already
mentionedthe difference in strategies used by men and. women to solve
problems may be at least partly responsible for the. observed sex differ
ences in behavior.Geneticmaturationaland. environmental factors may
pre dispose men and women to prefer. different modes of cognitive
analysis. Women solve problems primarily. by using a verbal modefor
example. Because this cognitive mode is. less efficient in solving
spatial problemswomen exhibit an apparent. deficiton average.By the
same logicwomen should do better than men. at primarily verbal
taskson average.This proposition has yet to be. thoroughly
investigated.. At least six significant behavioral differences are sex.
relatedverbal ability visuospatial analysismathematical.
abilityperceptionmotor skillsand aggression.Although the precise.
causes of cognitive sexrelated differences are unknownbiology likely.
plays a part.Consider the following dataRichard Harshman and his.
associatesin a very ambitious study of the interaction of sex and.
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