Middle-aged women have better memories than men

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent 730AM GMT twelve March 2010

At the age of 50, women"s mental stop outperforms their masculine counterparts, recalling difference both faster and some-more accurately.

The group at the University of London asked men and women to recollect 10 difference and afterwards stop them dual mins later.

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They were afterwards asked to list them five mins later.

In each box the women were some-more successful than the men.

The inform authors Matthew Brown and Brian Dodgeon pronounced "Men achieved significantly some-more feeble in the written mental stop tests quite on the behind mental stop test.

"Previous investigate has constructed matching formula but this is the initial time that such a large series of prime men and women of the same age have taken mental stop tests of this kind in the UK."

The investigate concerned some-more than 9,600 prime men and women in England, Scotland and Wales found women outscored men in dual written mental stop tests.

Women scored roughly 5 per cent some-more than men, on average, in the initial exam and scarcely eight per cent some-more in the second.

They were additionally quicker in a third exam requiring them to cranky out as most "Ps" and "Ws" as probable in a page filled with rows of pointless letters, but women additionally done some-more mistakes than men.

In a fourth test, that concerned fixing as most animals as they could in a minute, men and women had matching scores. Each could name twenty-two animals, on average.

Those tested were all members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) who have been tracked by researchers given their bieing born in 1958.

As they were additionally tested elderly 16, the ultimate tests will assistance researchers guess the stroke that exercise, diet, smoking, ethanol and basin have had on their mental abilities.

Initial analyses have shown those who exercised at slightest once a month performed

better on all tests, on average, than those who did not.

Non-smokers, together with ex-smokers, additionally outscored smokers in the initial of the "word recall" tests, even after amicable credentials was taken in to consideration.