Endogenous testosterone levels and visuospatial ability
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2016.03.020
- VernacularTitle:内源性睾酮与视空间能力
- Author:
Qiong GAI
;
Yueji SUN
;
Wenheng SUN
;
Fan WANG
;
Li SHA
;
Ya ZHENG
;
Yue JIANG
;
Guoqing XU
;
Huijuan SHEN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Endogenous testosterone levels;
Visuospatial ability;
Gender differences
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2016;25(3):285-288
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
To describe the effects of endogenous testosterone levels on the visuospatial ability.Thevisuospatial ability,testosteronewere included as the key words,retrieving 46 papers in the database.35 relevant papers have been reviewed in the paper,as the results,we have found that the visuospatial ability of male was better than female.The performances of the visuospatial tasks in males were associated with the lev-els of endogenous testosterone,and the effects comprised two aspects:the organizational function and activa-tional function of the testosterone.The latter have received more attention from researchers.Until now,most studies of activational effects of testosterone on visuospatial ability remained on the level of behavioral re-search.The mental rotation task,navigation task and virtual reality scenes tasks were implied in these stud-ies.A nonlinear relationship has aroused a great controversy.Latest research suggests that further investiga-tion of the neural mechanisms related to visual-spatial ability is needed,using ERP and MRI techniques,to assess the relationship of endogenous testosterone levels with the relevant neural basis of visuospatial ability.
