Question: Is there a difference between a man's memory and a woman's memory? The same goes to children and adults

Nadine Mirza answered on 16 Nov 2018:

Very fascinating question- I’ll answer in two parts.
When it comes to men versus women, science has debunked a lot of studies and shown that really, ther e isn’t much difference between the male and female brain structures, meaning their abilities aren’t much different either: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28611-a-welcome-blow-to-the-myth-of-distinct-male-and-female-brains/
So in that sense both men and women have the same capacity for memory. However, due to the different stages of women’s lives that cause hormonal imbalances, such as pregnancy, premenopause and postmenopause stages, women may experience memory issues or brain fog, with a lot of pregnant women complaining of memory loss. This is because of the impact of these hormones on brain cells, including those in the memory centers of the brain.
In a general sense though, men and women seem to match for memory.
In adults versus children typically adults have the capacity to remember better because as a child our memory and ability to remember is still building and continues to build until we become young adults. Some studies have suggested that children may better at remembering because they don’t deal with as much competing information as adults but these have been very few. Overall the understanding is that adults are better at storing and remembering memories up until they start to reach old age.