Sex-Linked Inheritance of Spatial Ability

1 October 1970

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills

Vol. 31 (2) , 610
https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1970.31.2.610

Abstract

Studies involving the inheritance of primary mental abilities in twins have generally shown that spatial ability appears to be the ability most influenced by hereditary factors (Thurstone, Thurstone, & Strandskov, 1955; Vandenberg, 1965). Stafford (1961), using the Identical Blocks Test as a measure of spatial visualization, demonstrated that a sex-linked recessive gene may be involved in the transmission of spatial abilities. The present study represented an attempt to replicate Stafford's earlier work, using a test which represented a reasonably pure measure of spatial visualization ability.

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This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Multivariate Analysis of Twin Differences
Published by Elsevier ,1965
Sex Differences in Spatial Visualization as Evidence of Sex-Linked Inheritance
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1961