"Do We Have Different Brains?"

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The stereotypical woman is frequently described as loving gossip, constantly craving chocolate, adoring shopping and shoe sales, having regularly shifting mystery moods, embracing a nurturing and maternal attitude and lifestyle, and enjoying a daily drama, musical, and/or sitcom. On the other hand, a typical man is often portrayed as sex obsessed, always drinking a beer, feeding women lame excuses and reasoning, adoring power tools, and enjoying a daily sporting event on the television. Sometimes, women and men seem to be separate species altogether. Physically, both genders have obvious dissimilarities. However, are our brains different? The purpose of this paper is to participate in an exploration of the differences between the brains of males and females.

The first studies ever conducted to find brain differences, were instructed by Francis Gatton. He performed all of his research in 1882, at the South Kensington Museum, in London, England. Francis Gatton identified "significant sex differences favoring men in strength of grip, sensitivity to shrill whistle sounds, and ability to work under pressure. Women were observed to be more sensitive to pain" (Schreiber 83.) Highly interested in a continuance of this research, t

he United States began to conduct research ten years later. Through studies performed by American scientists, they discovered that "women could hear better than men, had a more conventional vocabulary, and preferred blue to red. Men preferred red to blue, used a more adventurous vocabulary, and had a preference for abstract and general thought, while women preferred practical problems, and individual tasks" (Begley 80.)

Yet another study, compared brain scans of twenty-two males and twenty-two females, while they completed the same SAT math problems. Eleven members of each gender received an overall score of seven hundred, or higher, on these SAT mathematical exercises. The remaining twenty-two participants received a result around five hundred and forty, (the national average,) on this section of the exam. When the males receiving the high math SAT scores were compared to the males earning average results, the individuals with above average scores were found to have intense activity in the temporal lobes of the brain. On the other hand, the brain activity between the high and average female test takers was at the same level of neural effort. Overall, brain activity was much less in the temporal lobes of the female participants than each of the male test takers. In conclusion, the functioning of the brain varies between both sexes with

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