Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China.
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California.
Br J Dev Psychol. 2020 Sep;38(3):391-414. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12329. Epub 2020 Mar 25.
This study recruited kindergarteners and first graders to investigate gender and grade differences in semantic and spatial processing of number magnitude. Results based on the Bayesian statistics showed that (1) there was extreme evidence in favour of grade differences in both semantic processing and spatial processing; (2) there were no gender differences in semantic processing; and (3) boys developed earlier than girls in spatial processing of numbers, especially for the more difficult task. These results are discussed in terms of gender differences in cognitive mechanisms underlying semantic and spatial processing of number magnitude.
本研究招募了幼儿园和一年级学生，旨在调查数量大小的语义和空间处理中的性别和年级差异。基于贝叶斯统计的结果表明：（1）在语义处理和空间处理方面，年级差异存在极强的证据支持；（2）在语义处理方面没有性别差异；（3）男孩在数字的空间处理方面比女孩发展得更早，尤其是在更困难的任务中。这些结果从数量大小的语义和空间处理的认知机制中的性别差异方面进行了讨论。
