Dear Heavens! I nearly swooned when I read this article. You mean it's true? Men and women's brains are different.....No....no...it can't be. I mean wait......so you're saying that its possible for men and women to think and act differently because of the physical structural differences of the brain itself? Hold on....I thought men and women were the exact same in every way. Dang! I need to stop reading books put out by UC Berkeley Publishing.
Does this mean Larry Summers can take back his apology and stop being such a spineless wuss?
Craig.....check out the very last excerpt below. It doesn't explain women, but it's a start.
"What is astonishing to me," Witelson said, "is that it is so obvious that there are sex differences in the brain and these are likely to be translated into some cognitive differences, because the brain helps us think and feel and move and act.
"Yet there is a large segment of the population that wants to pretend this is not true."
"If you find that men and women have fundamentally different brain architectures while still accomplishing the same things," said neuroscientist Richard Haier, who conducted the study, "this challenges the assumption that all human brains are fundamentally the same.
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"We suggest that the differences we see are present at birth," Witelson said. "It is not a consequence of environmental differences."
Witelson determined that brain volume decreased with age among men, but hardly at all among women. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is something going on in the male brain," she said, "that is not going on in the female brain."
Women's brains, for instance, seem to be faster and more efficient than men's.
Overall, women's brains seem to be more complexly corrugated, suggesting that more complicated neural structures lie within.....
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