Sex Differences in Music: A Female Advantage at Recognizing Familiar Melodies

Although sex differences have been observed in various cognitive domains, there has been little work examining sex differences in the cognition of music. We tested the prediction that women would be better than men at recognizing familiar melodies, since memories of specific melodies are likely to b...

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Main Authors: Michael T Ullman, Scott A Miles, Robbin A Miranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00278/full