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ERIC Number: EJ916437
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Apr
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-2626
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Sexual Orientation and Spatial Position Effects on Selective Forms of Object Location Memory
Rahman, Qazi; Newland, Cherie; Smyth, Beatrice Mary
Brain and Cognition, v75 n3 p217-224 Apr 2011
Prior research has demonstrated robust sex and sexual orientation-related differences in object location memory in humans. Here we show that this sexual variation may depend on the spatial position of target objects and the task-specific nature of the spatial array. We tested the recovery of object locations in three object arrays (object exchanges, object shifts, and novel objects) relative to veridical center (left compared to right side of the arrays) in a sample of 35 heterosexual men, 35 heterosexual women, and 35 homosexual men. Relative to heterosexual men, heterosexual women showed better location recovery in the right side of the array during object exchanges and homosexual men performed better in the right side during novel objects. However, the difference between heterosexual and homosexual men disappeared after controlling for IQ. Heterosexual women and homosexual men did not differ significantly from each other in location change detection with respect to task or side of array. These data suggest that visual space biases in processing categorical spatial positions may enhance aspects of object location memory in heterosexual women. (Contains 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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