Neurodevelopmental Laboratory on Addictions and Mental Health, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Cogn Neurosci. 2021 Jul-Oct;12(3-4):182-184. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2020.1867087. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
Spets and Slotnick present a meta-analysis on long-term memory and sex differences. Overall findings indicate greater brain activation in men than women during memory performance. Merits of the activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis include considering study parameters and equating performance to enhance interpretability of activation differences. Variables and concepts relevant to memory and sex differences research also are discussed. As memory is essential for survival, characterizing neurobiological profiles, parsing sex and gender, will help broaden the field of long-term memory and sex differences research.
斯佩茨和斯洛特尼克对长期记忆和性别差异进行了荟萃分析。总体研究结果表明，在记忆表现中，男性的大脑活跃度高于女性。激活似然估计荟萃分析的优点包括考虑研究参数和使表现均等化，以增强激活差异的可解释性。还讨论了与记忆和性别差异研究相关的变量和概念。由于记忆对生存至关重要，因此描述神经生物学特征、解析性别差异将有助于拓宽长期记忆和性别差异研究领域。
