Gender differences in memory for object and word locations

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 904-919

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a   Postma, Albert ^b   Vecchi, Tomaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ART; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARTOONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646365922     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980543000079     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Ando, J., Ono, Y, & Wright, M. J. (2001). Genetic structure of spatial and verbal working memory. Behavior Genetics, 31, 615-624
2. . Baddeley, A. D. (1986). Working memory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
3. Baddeley, A. D. (1990). Human memory. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd.
4. Baddeley, A. D. (2000). The episodic buffer: A new component of working memory? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 417-423.
5. Baddeley, A. D. (2003). Working memory: Looking back and looking forward. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 829-839.
6. Baddeley, A. D., Lewis, V. J., & Vallar, G. (1984). Exploring the articulatory loop. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 36, 233-252.
7. Caplan, P. J., Crawford, M., Hyde, J. S., & Richardson, J. T. E. (1997). Gender differences in human cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2000). Mental imagery in blind people: The role of passive and active visuo-spatial processes. In M. Heller (Ed.), Touch, representation and blindness. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
9. Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
10. Green, S., Salkind, N., & Akey, T. (2000). Using SPSS for Windows: Analyzing and understanding data. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
11. Halpern, D. F. (2000). Sex differences in cognitive abilities (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
12. Harshman, R. A., Hampson, E., & Berenbaum, S. A. (1983). Individual differences in cognitive abilities and brain organization: Part I. Sex and handedness differences in ability. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 37, 144-192.
13. Harshman, R. A., & Paivio, A. (1987). "Paradoxical" sex differences in self-reported imagery. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 41, 287-302.
14. Kail, R., Carter, P., & Pellegrino, J. (1979). The locus of sex differences in spatial ability. Perception and Psychophysics, 26, 213-217.
15. Kessels, R.P. C., Postma, A., & De Haan, E. H. F. (1999). Object relocation: A program for setting up, running and analyzing experiments on memory for object locations. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 31, 423-428.
16. Kimura, D. (1999). Sex and cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
17. Levene, H. (1960). Robust tests for equality of variances. In I. Olkin, S. G. Ghurye, W. Hoeffding, W. G. Madow, & H. B. Mann (Eds.), Contributions to probability and statistics: Essays in honor of Harold Hotelling (pp. 278-292). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
18. Linn, M. C., & Petersen, A. C. (1985). Emergence and characterization of sex difference in spatial ability: A meta-analysis. Child Development, 56, 1479-1498.
19. Logic, R. H. (1995). Visuo-spatial working memory. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd.
20. Loring-Meier, S., & Halpern, D. F. (1999). Sex differences in visuospatial working memory: Components of cognitive processes. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 464-471.
21. Maccoby, E. E., & Jacklin, C. N. (1974). The psychology of sex differences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
22. McKelvie, S. J. (1986). Effects of format of the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire on content validity, split-half reliability, and the role of memory in test-retest reliability. British Journal of Psychology, 77, 229-236.
23. Metzler, J., & Shepard, R. N. (1974). Transformational studies of the internal representation of three-dimensional objects. In R. L. Solso (Ed.), Theories in cognitive psychology. Potomac, MD: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
24. Newcombe, N. (1982). Sex differences in spatial ability: Problems and gaps in current approaches. In M. Potegal (Ed.), Spatial abilities development and physiological foundations. New York: Academic Press.
25. Paivio, A. (1971). Imagery and verbal processes. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston.
26. Paivio, A., & Clark, J. M. (1991). Static versus dynamic imagery. In C. Cornoldi & M. A. McDaniel (Eds.), Imagery and cognition (pp. 221-245). New York: Springer-Verlag.
27. Paivio, A., & Harshman, R. (1983). Factor analysis of a questionnaire on imagery and verbal habits and skills. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 37, 461-483.
28. Pezdek., K., Roman, Z., & Sobolik, K. G. (1986). Spatial memory for objects and words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 530-537.
29. Postma, A. (1996). Reconstructing object locations in a 7×7 matrix. Psychologische Beitrage, 38, 383-392.
30. Postma, A., & De Haan, E. H. F. (1996). What was where? Memory for objects locations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 178-199.
31. Postma, A., Izendoorn, R., & De Haan, E. H. F. (1998). Sex differences in object location memory. Brain and Cognition, 36, 334-345.
32. Postma, A., Winkel, J., Tuiten, A., & van Honk, J. (1999). Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in human spatial memory. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 24, 175-192.
33. Sheehan, P. W. (1967). A shortened form of Betts' questionnaire upon mental imagery. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23, 386-389.
34. Sidak, Z. (1967). Rectangular confidence regions for the means of multivariate normal distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 62, 626-633.
35. Silverman, I., & Eals, M. (1992). Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. In J. Barkow, I. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adaptive mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 533-549). New York: Oxford University Press.
36. Vallar, G., & Baddeley, A. D. (1984). Fractionation of working memory: Neuropsychological evidence for phonological short-term store. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 23, 151-161.
37. Vecchi, T., & Girelli, L. (1998). Gender differences in visuo-spatial processing: The importance of distinguishing between passive storage and active manipulation. Acta Psychologica, 99, 1-16.
38. Vecchi, T., Tinti, C., & Cornoldi, C. (2004). Spatial memory and integration processes in congenital blindness. NeuroReport, 15, 2787-2790.
39. Voyer, D., Voyer, S., & Bryden, M. P. (1995). Magnitude of sex differences in spatial abilities: A meta-analysis and consideration of critical variables. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 250-270.