Université de Fribourg

Spatial relational learning and memory abilities do not differ between men and women in a real-world, open-field environment

Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: Behavioural Brain Research, 2010, vol. 207, no. 1, p. 125-137

This study assesses gender differences in spatial and non-spatial relational learning and memory in adult humans behaving freely in a real-world, open-field environment. In Experiment 1, we tested the use of proximal landmarks as conditional cues allowing subjects to predict the location of rewards hidden in one of two sets of three distinct locations. Subjects were tested in two different...