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The hippocampus is responsible for encoding both spatial and temporal aspects of information. Given
that the hippocampus is dimorphic between the sexes, it might stand to reason that if there are
differences in spatial ability, there are also differences in temporal ability, but there isn't much
evidence to explore this. In both abilities it has been possible to verify that in different tasks there are
significant differences in performance according to the age and sex of the participants. For this reason,
the objective of this study was to verify whether dimorphism occurs according to biological sex in
temporal perception tasks. For this, 55 participants were evaluated, of whom 25 were men and 30
women, all of them students at the University of Almería. This evaluation consisted of carrying out two
tests of temporal perception similar to each other in the programming. They were presented with an
object (in one task a car and in the other a square) that passed from the left to the right of the screen,
having a different speed on each trial. In the center appeared a rectangle that caused the object to
disappear for a variable time. The participants had to decide if the speed of the object was higher or
lower in the invisible part when compared to the visible part. The results showed that there were
differences between men and women in both tests, with men making fewer errors. This seems to be
in line with the results found in the evaluation of spatial ability, which could indicate that there are
apparently differences in the hippocampus between men and women. Another reason why these
differences could appear is the use of strategies, both for spatial and temporal skills, different between
both sexes. Future works can extend this evidence through the use of electroencephalography (EEG). Del Mar Salvador Viñas, María; Castillo Escamillar, Joaquín; María Carmona Lorente, Isabel; Pepe, Sofia; Mirino, Pierandrea; Manuel Cimadevilla Redondo, José - 04f Poster
congresso: XXXII Internacional conference of the spanish society for comparative psychology (Spagna)
libro: XXXII Internacional conference of the spanish society for comparative psychology - ()