Gender Differences and Changes in Cognitive Abilities Across the Adult Life Span

Maitland, Scott B.; Intrieri, Robert C.; Schaie, Warner; Willis, Sherry L.

doi:10.1076/anec.7.1.32.807

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“…This result is also in line with some studies that recognize the importance of educational level and its relationship with memory problems (Alonso & Prieto, 2004;Jonker et al, 2000;Schmand et al, 1997). There were also gender differences between the two groups, and gender has been related to memory in several studies (e.g., Maitland et al, 2000;Meinz & Salthouse, 1998). However, this gender effect was not found in our study and it also had no impact as a moderator of the age-everyday memory relationship.…”

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“…With respect to gender differences, a metaanalysis of 25 studies supported gender differences favoring women in verbal episodic memory tasks and verbal fluency, and men in spatial, primary working/working memory, and tests of reasoning (Meinz & Salthouse, 1998). A recent study (Maitland, Intrieri, Schaie, & Willis, 2000) showed gender differences in latent means of verbal recall between men and women: women outperformed men.…”

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Comparison Between Spanish Young and Elderly People Evaluated Using Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

Meléndez-Moral

Tomás

Blasco-Bataller

et al. 2010

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

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The first objective of this work was to compare scores obtained in the daily memory function between young and elderly people, and to check whether there are differences between the groups for each of the profile scores obtained in the memory test. A second aim of this paper is to study the relationship between everyday memory and age, while controlling for gender and educational level. The total and profile scores obtained in the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test were compared in a sample of 60 young and 120 elderly people from Valencia (Spain). Results showed significant differences between the two groups: those between 18 and 30 years obtained a higher average than those over 65. Once the group comparison was controlled for gender and educational level, the statistical effect of age group disappeared. The non-significant effect of group can not be explained by the introduction of gender, because both its main effect and the interaction were not statistically significant. However, educational level had a statistically significant effect which may explain the non-significant effect of group in this new analysis. The main conclusion is the need to carefully control for educational level in all studies related with everyday memory and ageing, as the differences found could be due to generational differences more than to biological deterioration.

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Comparison Between Spanish Young and Elderly People Evaluated Using Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

Meléndez-Moral

Tomás

Blasco-Bataller

et al. 2010

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

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“…All the papers cited above that use data from developing countries, including ours, use cross-5 Men have a distinct advantage in visuospatial abilities such as object rotation and numerical skills, while women routinely outperform men in verbal fluency and memory (Maitland et al, 2000;Weiss et al, 2003).…”

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A Life Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India

Onur

Velamuri

2016

Journal of Human Capital

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“…While some investigations suggest that sex differences remain largely constant up to old age (Herlitz et al, 1997;Larrabee and Crook, 1993), others concluded that sex differences disappear at older age (Dollinger, 1995;Herman and Bruce, 1983;Robert and Tanguay, 1990). Also, there are reports suggesting that the typical age-related cognitive decline is greater in men than in women (Barrett-Connor and Kritz-Silverstein, 1999;Elias et al, 1997;Van Exel et al, 2001), or the opposite (Brayne et al, 1995;Elias and Kinsbourne, 1974;Meinz and Salthouse, 1998), or equal in the two sexes (Barnes et al, 2003;Maitland et al, 2000;Singer et al, 2003). Maylor et al (2007) tested a large sample of subjects (almost 200,000) with various tasks, and found a generally steeper age-related decline in response accuracy for males than females, while the opposite was found for response speed.…”

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Effects of sex and age on auditory spatial scene analysis

Lewald

Hausmann

2013

Hearing Research

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractRecently, it has been demonstrated that men outperform women in spatial analysis of complex auditory scenes (Zündorf et al., 2011). The present study investigated the relation between the effects of ageing and sex on the spatial segregation of concurrent sounds in younger and middle-aged adults. The experimental design allowed simultaneous presentation of target and distractor sound sources at different locations. The resulting spatial "pulling" effect (that is, the bias of target localization toward that of the distractor) was used as a measure of performance. The pulling effect was stronger in middle-aged than younger subjects, and female than male subjects. This indicates lower performance of the middle-aged women in the sensory and attentional mechanisms extracting spatial information about the acoustic event of interest from the auditory scene than both younger and male subjects.Moreover, age-specific differences were most prominent for conditions with targets in right hemispace and distractors in left hemispace, suggesting bilateral asymmetries underlying the effect of ageing.

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Gender Differences and Changes in Cognitive Abilities Across the Adult Life Span

Cited by 97 publications

References 26 publications

Comparison Between Spanish Young and Elderly People Evaluated Using Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

Comparison Between Spanish Young and Elderly People Evaluated Using Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

A Life Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India

Effects of sex and age on auditory spatial scene analysis

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