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Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance
Which facets of human spatial navigation do sex and menstrual cycle influence? To answer this question, a cross-sectional online study of reproductive age women and men was conducted in which participants were asked to demonstrate and self-report their spatial navigation skills and strategies. Parti...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10495464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37696837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41153-x |
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author | Brown, Alana Burles, Ford Iaria, Giuseppe Einstein, Gillian Moscovitch, Morris |
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description | Which facets of human spatial navigation do sex and menstrual cycle influence? To answer this question, a cross-sectional online study of reproductive age women and men was conducted in which participants were asked to demonstrate and self-report their spatial navigation skills and strategies. Participants self-reported their sex and current menstrual phase [early follicular (EF), late follicular/periovulatory (PO), and mid/late luteal (ML)], and completed a series of questionnaires and tasks measuring self-reported navigation strategy use, topographical memory, cognitive map formation, face recognition, and path integration. We found that sex influenced self-reported use of cognitive map- and scene-based strategies, face recognition, and path integration. Menstrual phase moderated the influence of sex: compared to men, women had better face recognition and worse path integration, but only during the PO phase; PO women were also better at path integration in the presence of a landmark compared to EF + ML women and men. These findings provide evidence that human spatial navigation varies with the menstrual cycle and suggest that sensitivity of the entorhinal cortex and longitudinal axis of the hippocampus to differential hormonal effects may account for this variation. |
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spelling | pubmed-104954642023-09-13 Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance Brown, Alana Burles, Ford Iaria, Giuseppe Einstein, Gillian Moscovitch, Morris Sci Rep Article Which facets of human spatial navigation do sex and menstrual cycle influence? To answer this question, a cross-sectional online study of reproductive age women and men was conducted in which participants were asked to demonstrate and self-report their spatial navigation skills and strategies. Participants self-reported their sex and current menstrual phase [early follicular (EF), late follicular/periovulatory (PO), and mid/late luteal (ML)], and completed a series of questionnaires and tasks measuring self-reported navigation strategy use, topographical memory, cognitive map formation, face recognition, and path integration. We found that sex influenced self-reported use of cognitive map- and scene-based strategies, face recognition, and path integration. Menstrual phase moderated the influence of sex: compared to men, women had better face recognition and worse path integration, but only during the PO phase; PO women were also better at path integration in the presence of a landmark compared to EF + ML women and men. These findings provide evidence that human spatial navigation varies with the menstrual cycle and suggest that sensitivity of the entorhinal cortex and longitudinal axis of the hippocampus to differential hormonal effects may account for this variation. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10495464/ /pubmed/37696837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41153-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Brown, Alana Burles, Ford Iaria, Giuseppe Einstein, Gillian Moscovitch, Morris Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title | Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title_full | Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title_fullStr | Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title_short | Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
title_sort | sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10495464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37696837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41153-x |
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