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Several studies support the hypothesis that females reminisce more than males do because they accumulate more reactive inhibition during the prerest trials. The present study explores this hypothesis further by varying the amount of continuous practice prior to a rest period of constant length. Concordant with expectations, reminiscence increased as a negatively accelerated function of prerest practice, and females reached a higher asymptotic level of reminiscence than males did. Also as expected from theory, females gained less proficiency than males did across the prerest trials.
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Quante, A. L., Brown, I. S., & Payne, R. B. Hormonal regulation of psychomotor reminiscence in females. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, March 1983.
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Dietrich, J.M., Payne, R.B. Psychomotor reminiscence as a function of sex and amount of prerest practice. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 21, 377–380 (1983). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329985
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