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Arrighi, Linda; Hausmann, Markus – Learning & Memory, 2022
A recent meta-synthesis study with a sample of >12 million participants revealed that the male advantage in mental rotation (MR) is the largest cognitive sex/gender difference found in psychological literature. MR requires test takers to mentally rotate three-dimensional cubic figures under time restrictions. Previous studies have investigated…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Anxiety, Self Esteem, Gender Differences
Bein, Oded; Plotkin, Natalie A.; Davachi, Lila – Learning & Memory, 2021
When our experience violates our predictions, it is adaptive to update our knowledge to promote a more accurate representation of the world and facilitate future predictions. Theoretical models propose that these mnemonic prediction errors should be encoded into a distinct memory trace to prevent interference with previous, conflicting memories.…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Prediction, Memory, Expectation