Table 1.
General overview of navigation (nav) behavior differences between the sexes (men M; women F), with estradiol valerate (E2V) or placebo (PBO) administration (treatment), or that were non-additive (sex treatment) in the respective tasks
| Group differences | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Treatment | Sex Treatment | |||
| Egocentric strategy | |||||
| Egocentric bias (Y) | F>M | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| # route attempts (T) | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| # route errors (T) | n.d. | n.d. | F.E2V>F.PBO | ||
| Idle time (O) | F>M | ||||
| Drop-off time (nav dur) (O) | F>M | E2V>PBO | F.E2V>F.PBO | ||
| Periphery preference (O) | F>M | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| Allocentric strategy / cognitive map development | |||||
| Pointing accuracy (T) | M>F | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| Quicker pointing speed (T) | n.d. | n.d. | F.PBO>F.E2V | ||
| Total # drop-offs (O) | M>F | – | F.PBO>F.E2V | ||
| Speed-accuracy (1/LISAS) (O) | M>F | n.d. | F.PBO>F.E2V over time | ||
| Nav confidence (nav in confident locs) (O) | – | E2V>PBO (central) | F.E2V>F.PBO (target locations) | ||
| Navigated path complexity | |||||
| Traveled distance (O) | M>F | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| Sinuosity (O) | M>F (+ over time) | PBO>E2V | n.d. | ||
| # x-/y-flips (O) | M>F | n.d. | F.E2V>F.PBO, M.PBO>M.E2V | ||
Metrics are framed so the greater the value for the metric, the greater the bias towards the strategy the metric is listed under. Therefore, the group with higher values (left of the greater sign, “>”) demonstrated greater possibility of the given strategy, at least according to the given metric
(Y) Y-maze, (O)arena, (T)town task
n.d. = no differences. dur = duration, locs = locations, RT = response time