Gender differences in time perception and its relation with academic performance: non-linear dynamics in the formation of cognitive systems

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2012-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/1203.3954v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

Politically incorrect paper practically impossible to publish in a psychology journal

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Non-linear dynamics is probably much more common in the epigenetic dynamics of living beings than hitherto recognized. Here we report a case of global bifurcation triggered by gender that affects higher cognitive functions in humans. We report a cross-cultural study showing deviations in time perception, as assessed by estimating the duration of brief sounds, according to their durations and to the gender of the perciver. Results show that the duration of sounds lasting less than 10 s were on average overestimated, whereas those lasting longer were underestimated; estimates of sounds shorter than 1 s were extremely inaccurate. Females consistently gave longer estimates than males. Accuracy in time estimation was correlated to academic performance in disciplines requiring mathematical or scientific skills in male, but not in female students. This difference in correlation however had nothing to do with overall skills in mathematics. Both sexes scored similarly in scientific and technical disciplines, but females had higher grades than males in languages and lower ones in physical education. Our results confirm existing evidence for gender differences in cognitive processing, hinting to the existence of different "mathematical intelligences" with different non-linear relationships between natural or biological mathematical intuition and time perception.

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