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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Behavior

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  • Spatial memory is crucial for navigation and object localization.
  • Egocentric and allocentric strategies are used for spatial orientation.
  • Existing assessment methods often rely on 2D or virtual reality tasks, with reported gender differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate novel card-placing tasks for assessing egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in a real-world environment.
  • To investigate gender differences in spatial memory performance using these new tasks.
  • To explore the relationship between real-world spatial memory and established neuropsychological tests.

Main Methods:

  • Developed two card-placing tasks to separately assess egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in a natural 3D environment.
  • Recruited 94 young adults (male and female) to perform the tasks.
  • Administered the Spatial Span (forward and backward) from CANTAB and the Benton's Judge of Line Orientation Test (JoLO).

Main Results:

  • Men demonstrated superior performance compared to women on both egocentric and allocentric spatial memory tasks.
  • Women showed better performance on allocentric tasks than egocentric tasks.
  • Men's performance did not differ significantly between egocentric and allocentric strategies.
  • Performance on the card-placing tasks correlated significantly with backward visuospatial span scores from CANTAB.

Conclusions:

  • The study confirms the existence of gender differences in spatial memory functioning.
  • The novel card-placing tasks provide a valuable tool for neuropsychological assessment of spatial memory.
  • The findings contribute to understanding spatial cognition and its assessment in real-world contexts.