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  • Neuropsychology
  • Sex Differences Research

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  • The hypothesis that emotional and cognitive functions differ between sexes is debated.
  • Generalizability of sex differences across all emotional stimuli and working memory (WM) functions remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate sex-based differences in emotion recognition and specific working memory (WM) tasks.
  • To determine if sex influences performance on facial emotion identification and various WM components.

Main Methods:

  • Fifty females and sixty males participated in the study.
  • Participants completed an emotion recognition task using various emotional faces.
  • Working memory (WM) was assessed using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB), including spatial working memory (SWM), Stocking of Cambridge (SOC), and intra/extradimensional shifts (IED) tasks.

Main Results:

  • Females demonstrated faster response times in recognizing both positive and negative emotional faces compared to males.
  • Females performed better on the spatial working memory (SWM) task.
  • Males outperformed females on the intra/extradimensional shifts (IED) task and the four-move Stocking of Cambridge (SOC) task.

Conclusions:

  • Emotional processing, specifically facial emotion recognition speed, shows sex differences.
  • Specific components of working memory (WM) are processed differently by sex, with females excelling in SWM and males in IED and complex SOC tasks.
  • The findings support the conclusion that both emotional and cognitive functions are sensitive to sex-based variations.