Jul/090
The brains of men is different from that of women
The brains of women is different from that of men, the differences appear clearly in language skills.
And here that women show greater aptitude than the opposite sex. No one has yet provided a scientific answer to these differences.
For the first time researchers at Northwestern University were able to demonstrate that during linguistic tasks, the brain of women work more, and that men and women use different parts of the brain to perform the same functions.
Our discovery-said Douglas D. Burman, one of the managers of the research – could have important implications for teaching children to solve problems of disorder of language.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers measured the brain activity of 31 boys and 31 girls aged 9 to 15 years, while performing tasks of written language and oral
The tasks were assigned in two sensory modalities: visual and auditory.
It was asked children to read some words that they saw written, without feeling.
In the auditory mode rather have heard words aloud, without seeing them.
In the end, using a complex statistical model, the researchers accounted for differences based on age, sex and the different linguistic tasks, accuracy and performance, written or oral, in which words were presented.
They found that girls were more active areas of the brain function for language, and that their accuracy in performing tasks was precisely due to the strong involvement of the brain. For the women came into play during the language functions, the part of the brain that takes care to relate abstract thinking through language.
The same did not happen for the boys, to the amazement of scholars. While reading the words the males used the visual areas of the brain, while those drawing while listening to your hearing.
The men then used the sensory capacities, women also involve in the simplest functions of the brain areas related to reasoning. If these important discoveries were applied in the classroom should be taught with different methods students in male and female companions.
This research may have uncovered the mystery: not that men and women have different brains; it’s just using it differently! What underpins all the misunderstandings between men and women there is just that?