Do Women Excel in Remembering the Locations of Both Stationary and Repositioned Objects?

Robert, Michèle; Ecuyer-Dab, Isabelle

doi:10.1037/e501882009-477

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“…The studies selection procedure resulted in the sampling of 123 effect sizes (37 for object identity memory and 86 for object location memory) drawn from 36 studies, 3 of which were unpublished or had not been accepted for publication at the time of data entry (11 effect sizes). Note that although it was presented at a professional meeting, the study conducted by Robert and Ecuyer-Dab (2000) was counted as unpublished because it did not appear in a refereed journal. Only two of the sampled studies, those of Janowsky, Chavez, Zamboni, and Orwoll (1998) and Sharps and Gollin (1987), had most of the information required for meta-analysis, but simply stated that no gender differences were found without reporting a test of significance or relevant means and standard deviations.…”

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Gender differences in object location memory: A meta-analysis

Voyer

Postma

Brake

et al. 2007

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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The goal of the present study was to quantify the magnitude of gender differences in object location memory tasks. A total of 123 effect sizes (d) drawn from 36 studies were included in a meta-analysis using a hierarchical approach. Object identity memory (37 effect sizes) and object location memory (86 effect sizes) tasks were analyzed separately. Object identity memory task showed significant gender differences that were homogeneous and in favor of women. For the object location memory tasks, effect sizes had to be partitioned by age (younger than 13, between 13 and 18, older than 18), object type (common, uncommon, gender neutral, geometric, masculine, feminine), scoring method (accuracy, time, distance), and type of measure (recall, recognition) to achieve homogeneity. Significant gender differences in favor of females were obtained in all clusters above the age of 13, with the exception of feminine, uncommon, and gender-neutral objects. Masculine objects and measures of distance produced significant effects in favor of males. Implications of these results for future work and for theoretical interpretations are discussed.

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Section: Methods Selection Criteria For Inclusion In the Meta-analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender differences in object location memory: A meta-analysis

Voyer

Postma

Brake

et al. 2007

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

235

159

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“…With the original paper-andpencil format and incidental encoding (thus far intentional conditions have not been tested), women_s greater recognition of the locations of common objects was also reproduced (Barnfield 1999, setting 1;Ecuyer-Dab and Robert 2004b;Gaulin et al 1997;James and Kimura 1997, setting 1). Whereas Silverman and Eals had combined the recognition of both stationary and moved objects into a global score, more informative data analyses conducted separately for each class of objects have established that the female superiority is manifest within both classes (Robert and Ecuyer-Dab 2000). Moreover, departing from Silverman and Eals_s recall format to test for directed learning with common objects, a number of authors have reported a female advantage (Crook et al 1990;Duff and Hampson 2001, settings 1 through 3;McBurney et al 1997;Tottenham et al 2003).…”

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The Female Advantage in Object Location Memory According to the Foraging Hypothesis: A Critical Analysis

Ecuyer-Dab

Robert

2007

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According to the evolutionary hypothesis of Silverman and Eals (1992, Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 533-549). Oxford: Oxford University Press), women evolutionary hypothesis, women surpass men in object location memory as a result of a sexual division in foraging activities among early humans. After surveying the main anthropological information on ancestral sex-related foraging, we review the evidence on how robust women's advantage in object location memory is. This leads us to suggest that the functional understanding of this type of memory would benefit from comparing men and women in carefully designed and ecologically meaningful cognitive contexts involving, for instance, incidental versus intentional settings that call for either the absolute or relative encoding of the locations of common versus uncommon objects.

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