{"pk":28678,"title":"Female advantage in visual working memory capacity\nfor familiar shapes but not for abstract symbols","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Both behavioral studies and the neurophysiological data\nmodelling suggested female advantage in memory for objects,\nhowever, most research pertained to long-term memory,\nwhereas data from visual working memory (VWM) are\nscanty. In a large sample of 2044 people, the number of\nobjects supposedly encoded in VWM was measured during\nthe change detection task. The stimuli were either relatively\nfamiliar geometric shapes or less familiar Greek symbols.\nControlling for the general ability level, a small but\nsignificant advantage for memorizing shapes in VWM was\nfound in females over males, but no effect was observed for\nmemorizing abstract symbols. The present results support\nneuroimaging models of human cognitive architecture,\nsuggesting that female VWM relies on a more complex\nnetwork of domain-specific brain modules, as compared to\nmales. Consequently, formal models of VWM and related\ncognitive processes should account for sex and material type.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Visual working memory"},{"word":"sex differences"},{"word":"change\ndetection task"},{"word":"neural architecture of memory"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f32s20f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Adam","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chuderski","name_suffix":"","institution":"Jagiellonian University in Krakow","department":""},{"first_name":"Jan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jastrzębski","name_suffix":"","institution":"Jagiellonian University in Krakow","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28678/galley/18549/download/"}]}