SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2020
Sex Differences in Episodic Memory Variance.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Sex Specific Effects of a High Fat Diet on Metabolism, Cognition, and Pathology in the Tg-SwDI Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease.Research square · 2025Article
- Exploring the sensitivity of episodic and spatial memory tests to healthy and pathological cognitive aging.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sex, senescence, senolytics, and cognition.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Rat Models in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Implications for Translational Studies.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2024Review
- The moderating role of information processing speed in the relationship between brain remodeling and episodic memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Algorithmic Spaced Retrieval Enhances Long-Term Memory in Alzheimer Disease: Case-Control Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Deep learning with diffusion MRI as in vivo microscope reveals sex-related differences in human white matter microstructure.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Metabotropic NMDA Receptor Signaling Contributes to Sex Differences in Synaptic Plasticity and Episodic Memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Episodic memory improvement in illiterate adults attending late-life education irrespective of low socioeconomic status: insights from the PROAME study.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Regression-Based Normative Data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Its Memory Index Score (MoCA-MIS) for Individuals Aged 18-91.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Predictive value and weight of factors associated with cognitive performance in Hispanics/Latinos enrolled in the Health and Aging Brain Study: Health Disparities.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
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Abstract
Men as a group have been shown to have larger variances than women in several areas pertaining to both biological and psychological traits, but no investigation has been performed in regard to episodic memory. We conducted an analysis on sex differences in episodic memory variance on 535 studies, representing 962,946 individuals, conducted between 1973 and 2013. Results showed that men had larger variances than women in verbal episodic memory tasks as well as episodic memory tasks having to do with spatial locations. Women, on the other hand, had larger variance than men for tasks involving remembering routes. These effects were for the most part small, and exploratory analyses suggest that they might come about, at least in part, because of measures not sufficiently controlled for ceiling effects. This means that the effects should be interpreted with caution and that further research on sex differences in episodic memory variance is needed.
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