Mad about Memory?

"You forgot again, didn't you?” Caroline asks as she glares at her boyfriend. Tom tries to remember if there was something important he was supposed to do today. His girlfriend only grows angrier as he can't think of anything. “It's my birthday, you idiot!” Caroline yells. “Why can't you remember a simple date?”

This scene is a common one in relationships. Recent studies have begun to show that there are scientific reasons behind the memory differences between men and women. Women score higher on tests for long-term episodic memory, and men do better with visuospatial memories.

男女記憶大不同

「你又忘記了，對吧？」卡洛琳邊瞪著她男友邊問。湯姆試著想起今天是否有重要的事情必須做。當他什麼都想不起來，他的女朋友只有越來越生氣。「今天是我生日，你這個白癡！」卡洛琳吼叫說。「為什麼一個簡單的日期你都記不起來？」

這個場景在男女關係中很常見。最近的研究已經開始顯示男人與女人的記憶會不同，其背後是有科學根據的。女人在長期情節記憶測試所獲得的分數較高，而男人則是視覺空間記憶較好。