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. 2002 Mar;38(2):236-53.

The effects of sex steroids on spatial performance: a review and an experimental clinical investigation

Lynn S Liben  1 , Elizabeth J Susman, Jordan W Finkelstein, Vernon M Chinchilli, Susan Kunselman, Jacqueline Schwab, Judith Semon Dubas, Laurence M Demers, Georgia Lookingbill, M Rose Darcangelo, Holleen R Krogh, Howard E Kulin
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  • PMID: 11881759

The effects of sex steroids on spatial performance: a review and an experimental clinical investigation

Lynn S Liben et al. Dev Psychol. 2002 Mar.

Abstract

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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