Sex differences in recall of real or nonsense words.
Women perform better than men on tests of verbal memory, but the nature of this advantage has not been precisely established. To examine whether phonemic memory is a factor in the female advantage, we presented, along with other verbal memory tasks, one containing nonsense words. Overall, there was the expected female advantage. However, an examination of the individual tests showed female superiority in recall of the real words but not the nonsense words.
Kimura
Doreen
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Psychology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada. dkimura@sfu.ca
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Brooke N
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D012660:Semantics; D012737:Sex Factors; D014825:Vocabulary