Are men's brains different from women's and if so, in what ways? i.e. Do we process same info. differently?

Question

I know our brains are different in the obvious ways, the ways we see colour, etc. what I'm looking for is an answer regarding how we process information, not reading facial expressions or nebulous factors of non-verbal speech. Like how a man can listen to a person give information and a woman can hear the same thing however she processes it completely differently...why is that?

Answer 1

Women are better at multi-tasking because the two sides of their brains are more firmly connected. Men, however, are generally better at focusing on a single task because the two sides of their brains are less connected. I believe the connecting part is called the corpus callosum, but i may be wrong.

Remeber, this is in general, there can always be exceptions.

Answer 2

Well Sam I sure you've got a plastic brain but I can assure you I haven't darling. Depends on the reseach you believe and quite frankly I haven't went into it in any great depth but what I have read there is a general difference. Men have bigger and heavier brains in the main but that isn't a surprise since men are generally bigger than women anyway. However Men also ( according to the research I am not personally an expert ) have more gray matter and women seemingly have denser brains than men with more neurological connections. Again hardly surprising as male and females animals do act differently in any species. Edit Sam with my hairy chest! I am definitely one of King Kong's children. @Sam no we don't come form apes as primates we share a common ancestor with apes, we don't come from them or another way of looking at it is we are actually apes. The difference between us and (the other) great apes is seemingly we as humans have one less chromosone Somewhere along our development two of our chromosomes 'merged'.

Answer 3

. There are recurring differences between men's and women's brains, which include the size of the connections between the right and left sides of the brain, the relative sizes of some parts of the brain and the degree of development of some parts.
. Some of the parts of the brain which process and control speech reach full development later during gestation than most parts of the brain. I so happens that while these parts are developing in males, the body reaches a stage where a lot of testosterone is released. Testosterone is toxic to developing brain tissue. This could explain why men, on average, test lower for verbal ability than women.
. So that's it, men process language differently because testosterone makes you stupid.
. I actually DID NOT make this up.

Answer 4

I don't know about being different but I do know for sure men and women process information differently.

My best guess is that it goes back to the beginning of the human race when men needed to be assetive and aggressive and used the direct approach to everything. Women on the otherhand had to rely on intuitive behavior and nuturing for survival.

Answer 5

* The first answer is good. Women's brains tend to cross over between the two sides, while men's do not. I was told that artistic or gay men tend to have brain patterns that come closer to women's, but never quite to the same degree.

The reason I would give for this is that women are either conditioned/evolved/designed to think more analytically and intuitively "in relation" to other people or factors (presumably because women carry and nurture children and thus rely on nonverbal communication while these children are still learn to express themselves verbally); while men are either conditioned/evolved/designed to think more autonomously because of survival instincts as hunters/protectors or social roles as "head" of the household or the family, whichever makes more sense to you. Who knows what studies show on this.

* I have heard it said that 90% of communication is nonverbal.
This goes for both genders. As does your example that one person can repeat back, word for word, what the other person said, and yet convey a totally different meaning, inflection or connotation that the other person does not recognize and says "that's not what I said/meant." That is true for any two people, regardless of gender.

In general, women and members of community-based cultures tend to think and communicate more "holistically" in relation to other people or factors; while men and members of more linear-thinking cultures think more autonomously or isolate a topic instead of associating it with related issues in a larger context.

Answer 6

Yes a womans brain is stitched together better which means they process thoughts better that's why they dont like fighting as much as guys

Answer 7

Their brains are not different, they just have selective hearing.....If it doesn't interest them it doesn't matter...They go through life answering people with out even thinking about it they really don't like to express themselves about anything.