Women are better than men at remembering female faces.
Studies have indicated that women excel in verbal episodic memory tasks, such as remembering words, objects, pictures or everyday events, and men outperform women in remembering symbolic, non-linguistic information, known as visuospatial processing.
Herlitz and Rehman found that women are better than men at remembering faces, especially of females. The reason seems to be that women allocate more attention to female than to male faces.
Women were able to remember androgynous faces presented as female more accurately than the androgynous faces presented as male.
Sex Differences in Episodic Memory appeared in the February 2008, issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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