Gender differences in memory for objects and their locations: A study on automatic versus controlled encoding and retrieval contexts

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-242

  De Goede, Maartje ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Encoding; Gender differences; Object location memory; Process dissociation procedure; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 39749142252     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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