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  • Human Geography
  • Neuroscience

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  • Men consistently outperform women in spatial navigation tasks.
  • This advantage is often linked to men's greater reliance on survey spatial strategies.
  • However, the specific navigation behaviors contributing to this difference remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate gender differences in wayfinding behaviors during real-world navigation.
  • To determine if these behaviors correlate with navigational success.
  • To explore the relationship between self-reported spatial ability and navigational success.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized masked GPS trackers to monitor cadets navigating a large-scale natural environment.
  • Analyzed GPS data to compute exploration measures: distance traveled without course change, pausing frequency, and revisits to locations.
  • Correlated these behavioral measures and self-reported spatial skills with the ability to locate targets.

Main Results:

  • Replicated the finding that males performed better than females in navigation.
  • Identified specific wayfinding behaviors—longer direct travel, less pausing, and fewer location revisits—as key predictors of success.
  • Demonstrated that gender differences in navigational success were fully explained by these distinct wayfinding behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Wayfinding behaviors, rather than self-reported spatial skills, fully mediate the observed gender differences in real-world navigation.
  • This research highlights the importance of analyzing navigation strategies in naturalistic settings.
  • Suggests that targeted interventions could improve navigation by modifying wayfinding behaviors.