How Important Is the Digital Divide? The Relation of Computer and Videogame Usage to Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Ability

By Melissa S. Terlecki, Nora S. Newcombe. 2005

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Geography, Planning and Development

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Citations in the corpus

Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male–female ratios in the tails of the quantitative reasoning distribution have increased (2013, unknown): “…further about the causes of these shifts (for example, differences in time spent on video games that may build relevant reasoning skills, Else-Quest et al., 2010; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005), the data considered in this study could not directly test hypotheses about why these changes have occurred.”
College Students’ Video Game Participation and Perceptions: Gender Differences and Implications (2007, background): “Boys’ and men’s greater participation in video gaming may contribute to a continuing gender difference in spatial ability because video game playing may increase performance in children and adolescents (Okagaki & Frensch, 1994; Subrahmanyam & Greenfield, 1994; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005 ).”
Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition (2007, background): “The ﬁrst-person shooter action games that are appealing to boys, however, are not so attractive to girls (Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser, & Lehmann, 2006; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005).”
Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: gender differences in growth patterns (2008, methodology): “The Survey of Spatial Representation and Activities (SSRA) is a 17 item, open-ended and multiple choice questionnaire that was designed for this study (see Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005).”
The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. (2008, unknown): “Gender differences in spatial cognition are well known (e.g., Casey, Nuttall, Pezaris, & Benbow, 1995; Geary, Saults, Liu, & Hoard, 2000; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005).”
Women's underrepresentation in science: sociocultural and biological considerations. (2009, background): “…vs. dolls; Bornstein, Haynes, Pascual, Painter, & Galperin, 1999), toy purchases (Davis-Kean et al., 2007; Goldstein, 1994), and computer video game experience (Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser, & Lehmann, 2006; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005) may contribute to differences in mathematical and spatial abilities.”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “Players maneuvering, communicating, planning, and executing within three-dimensional spaces arguably face even greater demands in processing task-relevant information, with some game variants putting additional time pressure on players to complete patterns.”
A systematic literature review of empirical evidence on computer games and serious games (2012, background): “Terlecki and Newcombe (2005) found that the use of computers including computer games mediated gender differences in mental rotation ability, while Feng, Spence, & Pratt (2007) found that giving females experience in playing an action video game reduced gender differences in attentional and spatial…”
Playing video games does not make for better visual attention skills (2009, methodology): “The size of the UFOV has been shown to be reduced for older compared to younger individuals (Ball et al., 1988; Myers, Ball, Kalina, Roth & Goode, 2000), and males have been shown to have better performance than females on tasks such as the UFOV (e.g., Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005; Voyer, Voyer & Bry”