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Sex differences in remembering the locations of objects in an array: Location-shifts versus location-exchanges

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Women outperformed men on Silverman and Eals' Location Memory task when the locations of pairs of objects were exchanged, as in their original study, but not when the locations of objects were shifted to sites previously unoccupied by another object. Alternative explanations to Silverman and Eals' claim that women's superior performance was due to better location memory are discussed.

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