Kocijan Vid, Horvat Marina, Majdic Gregor
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2017 Oct 23;11:194. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00194. eCollection 2017.
Sex differences are consistently reported in different visuospatial tasks with men usually performing better in mental rotation tests while women are better on tests for memory of object locations. In the present study, we investigated sex differences in solving jigsaw puzzles in children. In total 22 boys and 24 girls were tested using custom build tablet application representing a jigsaw puzzle consisting of 25 pieces and featuring three different pictures. Girls outperformed boys in solving jigsaw puzzles regardless of the picture. Girls were faster than boys in solving the puzzle, made less incorrect moves with the pieces of the puzzle, and spent less time moving the pieces around the tablet. It appears that the strategy of solving the jigsaw puzzle was the main factor affecting differences in success, as girls tend to solve the puzzle more systematically while boys performed more trial and error attempts, thus having more incorrect moves with the puzzle pieces. Results of this study suggest a very robust sex difference in solving the jigsaw puzzle with girls outperforming boys by a large margin.
在不同的视觉空间任务中，性别差异一直存在，男性通常在心理旋转测试中表现更好，而女性在物体位置记忆测试中表现更佳。在本研究中，我们调查了儿童在拼图游戏中的性别差异。总共对22名男孩和24名女孩进行了测试，使用的是定制的平板电脑应用程序，该应用程序呈现一个由25块拼图组成的拼图游戏，并展示了三张不同的图片。无论图片如何，女孩在解决拼图游戏方面都优于男孩。女孩在解决拼图时比男孩更快，拼图块的错误移动更少，并且在平板电脑上移动拼图块所花费的时间更少。似乎解决拼图游戏的策略是影响成功差异的主要因素，因为女孩倾向于更系统地解决拼图，而男孩则进行更多的试错尝试，因此拼图块的错误移动更多。本研究结果表明，在解决拼图游戏方面存在非常明显的性别差异，女孩的表现远远优于男孩。
