IMAGERY AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN INCIDENTAL RECALL

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Abstract
Male and female subjects who differed on measures of imagery ability were tested for incidental recall in two experiments involving pictures and words as stimuli. In one experiment, high‐imagery males surpassed their low‐imagery counterparts in intentional free recall of words, but the reverse relation occurred with females. No relation was obtained between imagery ability and incidental recall for stimulus colour. However, the colours were recalled better when associated with pictures rather than words as stimuli, suggesting an effect of stimulus concreteness on visual memory. The orientating task in the second experiment was item recognition. High‐imagery subjects were more accurate than low‐imagers in the recognition task, and high‐imagery females (but not males) surpassed their low‐imagery counterparts in incidental recall of the stimuli.

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