Gender affects word retrieval of certain categories in semantic fluency tasks
Gender affects word retrieval of certain categories in semantic fluency tasks
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DOI：
10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70800-1
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发表时间：
1999-04-01
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影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Barbarotto, R
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作者：
Capitani, E;Laiacona, M;Barbarotto, R
最近的研究表明，性别会影响语音提示的流畅性和一些语义记忆任务。在这项研究中，我们分析了人口统计变量对语义流畅性任务的影响。考虑的语义类别是：动物、水果、工具和车辆。年龄和教育的影响对于所有考虑的类别都是常见的，并且似乎是语义流畅性任务的一般特征。性别仅对水果和工具产生显着影响，但作用有所不同：女性在水果方面表现更好，而男性在工具方面表现更好。我们讨论性别效应的来源是否应该位于每个类别的语义表示的水平上，或者在任务授予的短时间内（一分钟）内的项目回忆水平上。
Recent studies suggest that gender influences phonetically-cued fluency and some semantic memory tasks. In this study we analysed the effect of demographic variables on semantic fluency tasks. The semantic categories considered were: animals, fruits, tools and vehicles. The influence of age and education was common to all the categories considered and seems a general characteristic of the semantic fluency task. Gender had a significant effect only with fruits and tools, but a diverging role: females fared better with fruits and males with tools. We discuss whether the source of the gender effect should be located at the level of the semantic representation of each category or at the level of item recall in the short time (one minute) granted for the task.