Recent work on sex differences in learning and memory has demonstrated that females and males differ in cognitive and behavioral strategies, as well as neural mechanisms required to learn, retrieve, and express memory. Although our understanding of the mechanisms of memory is highly sophisticated, this work is based on male animals. As such, the study of female memory is narrowed to a comparison with behavior and mechanisms defined in males, resulting in findings of male-specific mechanisms but little understanding of how females learn and store information. In this paper, we discuss a female-focused framework and experimental approaches to deepen our understanding of the strategies and neural mechanisms engaged by females (and males) in learning, consolidation, and retrieval of memory.

最近关于学习和记忆性别差异的研究表明，女性和男性在认知和行为策略以及学习、检索和表达记忆所需的神经机制方面存在差异。尽管我们对记忆机制的理解非常复杂，但这项工作是基于雄性动物。因此，对女性记忆的研究仅限于与男性定义的行为和机制进行比较，从而得出男性特有机制的发现，但对女性如何学习和存储信息知之甚少。在本文中，我们讨论了一个以女性为中心的框架和实验方法，以加深我们对女性（和男性）学习、巩固和检索记忆的策略和神经机制的理解。