The study upon differences in reaction times in lexical and judgment tasks using a patented psycho-verbal stimulation interface

The study aims at assessing the differences between motor reaction times (RTs) recorded in young as a function of gender and three types of visual lexical tasks, using a patented psycho-verbal stimulation interface. The experiment was conducted in two groups of 25 men and 25 women, between 19-23 year old, students and employees with secondary education, which performed three types of lexical tasks: word recognition, letter recognition and judgment tasks at over 500 words with high frequency in common language. The results are estimated as average reaction times by women/men groups and by type of task. Visual recognition RTs were superior (shorter) in men group, letter recognition RTs were superior in women group and judgment RTs were not statistically different by gender. Motor reaction times show that manual dexterity was superior in male group, but women group shows higher skills in lexical-letter decoding. The equivalence in judgment reaction times suggests either a thinking compensation time in women group or a different strategy of lexical decoding in women that deny the apparently conclusion that “women look to be smarter than men”.