(Newswire.net — December 1, 2015) — Many books have been written on the topic of gender differences, how to interpret each gender’s likes and dislikes, who is more intelligent, why each of the genders behaves in certain ways, even coming from different planets has been mentioned. Although everything can be applied, debated, accepted or rejected in life, science has come to one clear distinction when it comes to men’s and women’s brain and that’s weight, in favour of men (8 to 13%). Is this disappointing?
According to Neuroscience and Behavioral Review Journal’s last year report, there are some prominent characteristics tied to either male or female brain, mostly in parts controlling behavior, emotions, language and memory, but the point was to define if these differences concerning structure could be equalled to cognitive ones. Having examined numerous groups of people, using all up-to-date scans, the results were the same: there were no patterns showing differences in men’s and women’s brains.
“Although there are sex/gender differences in brain structure, brains do not fall into two classes, one typical of males and the other typical of females. Each brain is a unique mosaic of features, some of which may be more common in females compared with males, others may be more common in males compared to females and still others may be common in both males and females.”-a team wrote in a study published in the journal.
A psychobiologist Daphna Joel of Tel Aviv University of Israel and her team tried to clear this out and find whether there were strictly male or female brain parts which do not share common ground. Having examined 116 distinctive regions of the 281 brains of people aged between 18 to 79, the scans showed three categories- most ‘male, most ‘female’ and one in the middle. Whatever analysis they tried, whatever threshold they used, there were more combined brains than exclusively of one gender type.
The next step was to measure grey matter thickness in the outer layer of cerebrum and some of its different links, but again, just male or just female brains were in minority as opposed to common brains. They also tried the same method with teens, university students and adults. The exclusively gendered brains were again greatly outnumbered by the common ones.
The conclusion Joel and her team presented was:”This extensive overlap undermines any attempt to distinguish between a ‘male’ and a ‘female’ form of specific brain features.These findings have important implications for social debates or long-standing issues such as the desirability of single-sex education and meaning of sex/gender as a social category.”
Even if we know that men prefer sports and don’t talk too much, as opposed to women, it seems that this has got nothing to do with brains.