Get this: Men and women’s brains are different.
Using a powerful, first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence model, Stanford Medicine was able to determine with a 90% success rate whether or not an MRI scan of human brain activity was coming from a male brain or a female brain.
“The findings, the investigators suggest, help to resolve a longstanding controversy about whether reliable sex differences exist in the human brain,” reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
Controversy?
I grew up an only boy with five sisters. My father and I figured out more than half a century ago that men and women have innately different brains.
However, prior to about 20 years ago, according to Stanford Medicine Magazine, the neuroscience community thought the difference in male and female brains was due to cultural influences.
You know, the old argument that boys like toy trucks because toy trucks are pushed on them as children and little girls like dolls because dolls are pushed on them.
But in the early 2000s those claims were disabused by a variety of studies, according to Psychology Today that, put simply, showed the circuitry in male and female brains is wired differently and these innate differences result in different behavior.
It’s not to say a male brain is better than a female brain, or vice versa.
But Stanford Medicine Magazine says that women generally have greater reading and writing abilities than men.
They’re also better at retrieving information from their long-term memory — especially everything we’ve done wrong since the moment we met them.
A 2014 University of Pennsylvania study found that females routinely use both sides of their brains in a highly coordinated manner, whereas men often use only one.
Women would be shocked if they knew how many things we use only half a brain to do.
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