Sex Differences in Cognition: A Function of Maturation Rate?
- 7 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4239) , 572-574
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257795
Abstract
Regardless of sex, early maturing adolescents performed better on tests of verbal than spatial abilities, the late maturing ones showed the opposite pattern. Those maturing late were more lateralized for speech than those maturing early. Sex differences in mental abilities, it is argued, reflect differences in the organization of cortical function that are related to differential rates of physical maturation.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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