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PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 563-575Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(00)00010-X
Keywords
spatial cognition; object-location memory; testosterone administration; sex characteristics; hormonal mechanisms; placebo-controlled
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Previous work has indicated that object-location memory is sensitive to sex differences as well as variations in the menstrual cycle. The goal of the present study was to further examine the hormonal basis of human spatial memory by assessing the effects of a single dose of exogenous testosterone in healthy young women on three recall conditions: positional reconstruction; object-to-position-assignment; and the combined condition in which subjects both have to reconstruct the precise locations and to link the different objects to the correct places. In the latter condition, delayed recall (3 min delay) improved with testosterone. Although the effects were only small and need further substantiation, they support the idea that testosterone may have an activational effect on selective aspects of cognitive functioning. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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