Superior spatial memory of women: Stronger evidence for the gathering hypothesis

McBurney, Donald H.; Gaulin, Steven J. C.; Devineni, Trishul; Adams, Christine

doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(97)00001-9

Cited by 168 publications

(97 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The findings are consistent with previous studies reporting a female advantage in object location memory (e.g., Eals & Silverman, 1994;Hill et al, 1995;James & Kimura, 1997;McBurney et al, 1997;Silverman & Eals, 1992) compared to other forms of spatial cognition where a male advantage is evident (such as mental rotation; Voyer et al, 1995). In contrast to Eals and Silverman (1994) and Silverman and Eals (1992), who employed nonstandardized versions of object memory and object location tests, we demonstrated some support for McBurney et al's (1997) assertion that any female advantage is for recall of spatial locations per se rather than memory for object identity using a standard neuropsychological paradigm.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…We chose this paradigm because it provides a more sensitive measure of location memory than the tests of Eals and Silverman (1994) and McBurney et al (1997). Performance on this task is also known to be associated with hippocampal integrity.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some have maintained that these differences could be due primarily to verbal strategies employed by females during object identity and recognition processing (Postma et al, 1998). However, two further studies looking at sex effects, which placed an emphasis on object location memory (aiming to reduce usage of nonspatial strategies), demonstrated a female advantage (Hill et al, 1995;McBurney et al, 1997).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Sexual orientation related differences in spatial memory

Rahman

Wilson

Abrahams

2003

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The purpose of this study was to investigate and extend previously reported sex differences in object location memory by comparing the performance of heterosexual and homosexual males and females. Subjects were 240 healthy, right-handed heterosexual and homosexual males and females. They were instructed to study 16 common, gender-neutral objects arranged randomly in an array and subsequently tested for object recall, object recognition and spatial location memory. Females recalled significantly more objects than males, although there were no group differences in object recognition. Decomposition of significant interactions between sex and sexual orientation on spatial location memory (controlling for differences in object recall, age and IQ) revealed that heterosexual females and homosexual males scored better than heterosexual males, and no different from each other. There were no differences between homosexual and heterosexual females. The findings suggest that homosexual males and heterosexual females encode, store and retrieve positional and relational information about spatial layouts similarly, pointing to within-sex variations in the neural architecture underlying spatial memory. (JINS, 2003, 9, 376-383.)

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Sexual orientation related differences in spatial memory

Rahman

Wilson

Abrahams

2003

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Although care is required in generalising from the very small sample in this study (even though well-matched in age and IQ), the findings are consistent with gender differences found in larger studies. In contrast to mental rotation and spatial navigation which typically reveal an advantage for males over females (Astur, Ortiz, & Sutherland, 1998;Dabbs, Chang, Strong, & Milun, 1998;Moffatt, Hampson, & Hatzipantelis, 1998), females outperform males when asked to identify which object of a set of objects has been moved (McBurney, Gaulin, Devineni, & Adams, 1997;Silverman & Eals, 1992)-the basic paradigm used here. The exceptions to this female advantage in conditions subject and subject&cue-card perhaps indicates an advantage for men in using internal updating that is masked by the advantage for women when visual snapshots can be used.…”

Section: The Effect Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Orientational manoeuvres in the dark: dissociating allocentric and egocentric influences on spatial memory

2004

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Subjects in a darkroom saw an array of five phosphorescent objects on a circular table and, after a short delay, indicated which object had been moved. During the delay the subject, the table or a phosphorescent landmark external to the array was moved (a rotation about the centre of the table) either alone or together. The subject then had to indicate which one of the five objects had been moved. A fully factorial design was used to detect the use of three types of representations of object location: (i) visual snapshots; (ii) egocentric representations updated by self-motion; and (iii) representations relative to the external cue. Improved performance was seen whenever the test array was oriented consistently with any of these stored representations. The influence of representations (i) and (ii) replicates previous work. The influence of representation (iii) is a novel finding which implies that allocentric representations play a role in spatial memory, even over short distances and times. The effect of the external cue was greater when initially experienced as stable. Females out-performed males except when the array was consistent with self-motion but not visual snapshots. These results enable a simple egocentric model of spatial memory to be extended to address largescale navigation, including the effects of allocentric knowledge, landmark stability and gender. q

show abstract

“…Some researchers are also reported that female children have better memory for object recall test than males. [26,27] In the present study female children tend to score higher than male children in all tests except in few trials of alphabetical test and numerical test , because they pay more attention to specific details and the nearer surroundings, while males focus on the specific task that they were asked to complete.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 44%

Obesity and Memory

Sorrakayala¹

2017

jmscr

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Superior spatial memory of women: Stronger evidence for the gathering hypothesis

Cited by 168 publications

References 18 publications

Sexual orientation related differences in spatial memory

Sexual orientation related differences in spatial memory

Orientational manoeuvres in the dark: dissociating allocentric and egocentric influences on spatial memory

Obesity and Memory

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About