@article{ref1,
title="Sex differences in home range and cognitive maps in eight-year old children",
journal="Journal of environmental psychology",
year="1981",
author="Webley, Paul",
volume="1",
number="4",
pages="293-302",
abstract="This study investigated the hypothesis that there is a sex difference in the extent of children's home ranges and therefore a corresponding difference in their home area cognitive maps. Cognitive maps were elicited using a road construction kit and the resulting maps scored for embedding, extent and detail. Home ranges were investigated using a photographic recognition test and by children indicating home range extent on aerial photographs. The results supported the hypothesis of a sex difference. However, these sex-related mapping differences disappeared when children were required to create maps of areas to which both sexes had limited and controlled exposure. Thus, the original sex-related differences appear to be associated with differences in the size of familiar territory rather than with any male superiority in spatial cognition or map-building ability. The latter was shown to be related to general intelligence as reflected by scores on Raven's Progressive Matrices.<p />",
language="",
issn="0272-4944",
doi="10.1016/S0272-4944(81)80027-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(81)80027-8"
}