Boys and Girls Brains are Different

When reading articles from Science Daily, I came across one about Boys and Girls Brains are Different: Gender Differences in Language Appear Biological. According to Science Daily, the language processing is more abstract in girls and more sensory in boys. A test was done with 31 boys and 31 girls ages 9 to 15 as they performed writing language and spelling tasks. This task was done both auditory and visually. When this test was done, researchers found that boys are not as significantly active in language areas of the brains. Also this was not the only case with boys. With boys, accurate performance when hearing words boys performance depended on how hard auditory areas of the brain worked and when reading words it was on how hard visual areas of the brain worked.

"One possibility is that boys have some kind of bottleneck in their sensory processes that can hold up visual or auditory information and keep it from being fed into the language areas of the brain," Burman said. This could result simply from girls developing faster than boys, in which case the differences between the sexes might disappear by adulthood.

Overall, women tend to be more abstract and provide more context then boys do. For example, if you ask a women for direction you would probably hear, “Turn left on main street, go down past the drug store, and then turn right and you will see the café right across rom the bank”. Boys are different and may require only one cur and be distracted by additional information.

This all was pretty interesting to me and never thought about how different women and men’s brains work. The question I have, are girls or boys really smarter than the other gender or are boys and girls equal when it comes to the brains?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303120346.htm