کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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920151 | 920269 | 2011 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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In prior work, women were found to outperform men on short-term verbal memory tasks. The goal of the present work was to examine whether gender differences on short-term memory tasks are tied to the involvement of long-term memory in the learning process. In Experiment 1, men and women were compared on their ability to remember phonologically-familiar novel words and phonologically-unfamiliar novel words. Learning of phonologically-familiar novel words (but not of phonologically-unfamiliar novel words) can be supported by long-term phonological knowledge. Results revealed that women outperformed men on phonologically-familiar novel words, but not on phonologically-unfamiliar novel words. In Experiment 2, we replicated Experiment 1 using a within-subjects design, and confirmed gender differences on phonologically-familiar, but not on phonologically-unfamiliar stimuli. These findings are interpreted to suggest that women are more likely than men to recruit native-language phonological knowledge during novel word-learning.
Research Highlights
► Gender differences on language tasks have been reported.
► We examine gender differences on a word-learning task.
► Phonological familiarity of novel words is manipulated.
► Women are found to outperform men on phonologically-familiar novel words only.
Journal: Acta Psychologica - Volume 137, Issue 1, May 2011, Pages 24–35