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How important is spatial ability to mathematics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Ann Dowker
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, England, ann.dowker@psy.ox.ac.uk

Abstract

This commentary focuses on one of the many issues raised in Geary's target article: the importance of gender differences in spatial ability to gender differences in mathematics. I argue that the evidence for the central role of spatial ability in mathematical ability, or in gender differences in it, is tenuous at best.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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