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  • Human Geography
  • Cross-Cultural Studies

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  • Human spatial ability is influenced by age and gender.
  • Cultural factors affect cognitive strategies, but global interactions remain understudied.
  • Geographical and cultural variations may lead to organized global cognitive patterns.

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  • To assess the global distribution of spatial navigation ability.
  • To investigate the relationship between national characteristics and spatial cognition.
  • To understand the impact of economic wealth and gender inequality on spatial skills.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a mobile-app-based cognitive task for spatial navigation.
  • Collected data from over 2.5 million participants across all nation states.
  • Utilized a clustering approach to group countries based on navigation ability.

Main Results:

  • Spatial navigation ability clustered into five geographically related groups.
  • National economic wealth predicted average navigation ability.
  • Gender inequality predicted the performance gap between genders.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive abilities, specifically spatial navigation, exhibit global clustering linked to economic and gender factors.
  • Findings have significant implications for cross-cultural research and multi-center clinical trials.
  • Spatial cognition is not uniform globally but organized by socio-economic and cultural contexts.