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HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
卷 18, 期 4, 页码 365-385出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s12110-007-9022-0
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foraging activities; hunting-gathering hypothesis; object location memory; sex differences in spatial memory; sexual division of labor
According to the evolutionary hypothesis of Silverman and Eals ( 1992, Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby ( Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture ( pp. 533 - 549). Oxford: Oxford University Press), women evolutionary hypothesis, women surpass men in object location memory as a result of a sexual division in foraging activities among early humans. After surveying the main anthropological information on ancestral sex- related foraging, we review the evidence on how robust women' s advantage in object location memory is. This leads us to suggest that the functional understanding of this type of memory would benefit from comparing men and women in carefully designed and ecologically meaningful cognitive contexts involving, for instance, incidental versus intentional settings that call for either the absolute or relative encoding of the locations of common versus uncommon objects.
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