> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Men do hear, but differently
>
>
> Amara asked:
> >
> >http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_00/men_hear
> ing00.html
> > > Interesting about the hearing ... Now what about speech ?
> > > What part of the brains do men and women utilize for speaking?
> > > Amara
>
> I think they are roughly the same, but the studies mentioned in
> http://web.missouri.edu/~psycorie/brain.html suggest that in women the
> language system is more distributed (with exceptions like Wernicke's
> and Broca's areas). My guess is that in women the network is more
> bilateral and less easily disrupted by the failure of a single region.
You are correct, sir. The general trend is that men are more
visual-spatially oriented, while women are more verbally oriented. Women
also have a more bi-laterally distributed brain in general, both
visual-spatially and verbally. Damage to the left hemisphere in males
usually spares almost all visual-spatial abilities, while damaging verbal,
while women lose some of both types of abilities. The reverse is true for
right hemisphere damage: men mostly spare verbal, lose visual, women, a bit
of both. The higher lateralization in men is also the reason why they make
better split-brain subjects.
I can provide references, if anyone so desires.
JPM
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