Congrats, Men: You Are Slightly Better at Remembering Where You Parked Your Cars
LatestWhen it comes to spatial memory—the part of one’s memory responsible for navigation—there appears to be an inherent difference between the sexes. According to a study published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, men and women use different methods for remembering where one object is in relation to another—and the process men use seems to yield moderately better results.
The study was conducted at a shopping mall with a large parking lot (431 spaces). Researchers interviewed shoppers as they were leaving stores, asking them to describe where they parked their car and to estimate its distance from the mall by marking the car’s locations on a map. Women were more likely to use landmarks to remember where they parked their cars, whereas men used quantifiable terms, like distance measurements.