Desde Estocolmo llegan datos interesantes sobre las posibilidades de memoría episódica (memoria a largo plazo basada en las experiencias personales) según el género; el balance es favorable al sexo femenino.

Los psicólogos Agneta Herlitz y Jenny Rehnman dicen que las mujeres cumplen muy bien en memoria verbal episódica, en cambio los varones consiguen mejores resultados en la información no-linguística en recuerdos simbólicos. Además, las mujeres consiguen mejores resultados en el recuerdo de caras, especialmente de mujeres y las razones parecen ser que las mujeres prestan más atención a las caras femeninas que las masculinas.

Acta Psychol (Amst). 2007 Mar;124(3):344-55. Women remember more faces than men do. Rehnman J, Herlitz A.

Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Gävlegatan, 16 8tr, 113 30 Stockholm, Sweden. Women have been found to outperform men on face recognition tasks, specifically in the recognition of female faces. Men do not seem to exhibit a corresponding own-sex bias. To examine the generality and possible reasons for these patterns, 107 men and 112 women viewed faces of both children and adults of either Swedish or Bangladeshi origin, for later recognition. As expected, women were especially good at remembering female faces, but also outperformed men on male faces. Men did not show an own-sex bias. Thus, regardless of age and ethnicity of the faces, women performed at a higher level than men on both female and male faces, possibly reflecting enhanced interest in faces, and in particular, female faces.