WOMEN

• Women perform better than men on tests of perceptual speed -- in which subjects must rapidly identify matching items, such as pairing a picture with its twin in a given set of photos.

• Women can remember if an object or series of objects have been displaced, or recalling major landmarks in a route.

• In tests, such as listing together of objects with same colour, verbal fluency -- participants to recite words beginning with similar alphabets -- women outperform men.

• Women do mathematical calculations better than men

MEN

• Men outperform women in spatial tasks. They do well on tests that involve mentally rotating an object or evn manipulating it in a particular fashion

• Men are better than women in target directed motor skills, such as throwing a projectile or playing dart.

• Men excel in navigating their way through a route

• Men are better at reasoning.