Gender plays a role in how the brain reacts

**K0nTANK3Rous** · 12-03-09, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by WorstPE

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

Here is one not so intuitive, the connective neurons between the hemispheres of the brain in women is larger; women show greater ability to multi-task then men on average due to a larger "bandwidth" in inter-hemisphere communication.

Well duh. They have to cook, clean, and take care of children all day! :P

You actually make a fine point here Worst..

in parallel to what Soy has shown here and the article, other research (and this is more DUH'ness) shows that these differing regions and functionality in the brain between men and women go back to the very early days of mankind when women did most of the farming, childraising, around the house "chores", etc. Men did the hunting and gathering. It took extreme focus for the hunting aspects which is thought to the reason why men are so "one-sided" or single focused and have such difficult times multi-tasking. Women are though to be much better at the multi-tasking roles since that's what they performed from very early on. Now with further brain composition research and comparisons it becomes more apparent that the brain evolved to support such theories.

**SapiensErus** · 12-03-09, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by K0nTANK3Rous

Originally Posted by WorstPE

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

Here is one not so intuitive, the connective neurons between the hemispheres of the brain in women is larger; women show greater ability to multi-task then men on average due to a larger "bandwidth" in inter-hemisphere communication.

Well duh. They have to cook, clean, and take care of children all day! :P

You actually make a fine point here Worst..

in parallel to what Soy has shown here and the article, other research (and this is more DUH'ness) shows that these differing regions and functionality in the brain between men and women go back to the very early days of mankind when women did most of the farming, childraising, around the house "chores", etc. Men did the hunting and gathering. It took extreme focus for the hunting aspects which is thought to the reason why men are so "one-sided" or single focused and have such difficult times multi-tasking. Women are though to be much better at the multi-tasking roles since that's what they performed from very early on. Now with further brain composition research and comparisons it becomes more apparent that the brain evolved to support such theories.

Not quite.. there are a number of tribes (such as those in Papua New Guinea) where those duties are reversed. Men tend the house, forage and take care of the young while the women do the hunting. Again, many of these differences could be society shaping the neural network and may not be genetic.

Experiments to test these things are not exactly ethical... (Imagine separating newborns from families and reassigning them to experimental groups... not OK).