Women Are Better Multi-Taskers; Men Better At Completing Single Complex Tasks Brain Connectivity Study Reveals Striking Differences...
Women Are Better Multi-Taskers; Men Better At Completing Single Complex Tasks
Brain Connectivity Study Reveals Striking Differences Between Men and Women. This research has not only affirmed, but added fuel to the debate states that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" a saying that speaks to the difference in the ways both sexes operates, the Daily Mail reported.
PHILADELPHIA — A new brain connectivity
study from Pennsylvania University of
Medicine published On December
2, 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported this striking differences of the neural wiring of men and women that’s lending credence to some commonly who hold beliefs about their behavior.
Men can't multitask and women have better memory
because their brains are wired
differently, a new study led by Ragini Verma an Indian-origin
scientist has found.
(Photo : University of Pennsylvania ) Brain networks show increased connectivity
from front to back and within one hemisphere in males, upper, and left to right in females, lower.
“These diagrams above show us a striking difference in the neural wiring of men and women which explain the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,” said Verm
In one of the largest studies looking at the "connectomes" of the
sexes, Ragini Verma, an associate professor in the department of Radiology at
the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
This suggests male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action.
In contrast, in females, the wiring goes between the left and right hemispheres, suggesting that they facilitate communication between the analytical and intuition.
"These maps show us a stark difference - and complementarity - in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others," said Verma, who has a PhD in computer vision and mathematics from Indian Institute of TechnologyDelhi
In the study, Verma and colleagues investigated the gender-specific differences in brain connectivity during the course of development in 949 individuals (521 females and 428 males) aged 8 to 22 years using diffusion tensor imaging.
DTI is water-based imaging technique that can trace and highlight the fiber pathways connecting the different regions of the brain, laying the foundation for a structural connective or network of the whole brain. Researchers found that females displayed greater connectivity in the supratentorial region, which contains the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, between the left and right hemispheres.
Males, on the other hand, displayed greater connectivity within each hemisphere.
By contrast, the opposite prevailed in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that plays a major role in motor control, where males displayed greater inter-hemispheric connectivity and females displayed greater intra-hemispheric connectivity.
These connections likely give men an efficient system for coordinated action, where the cerebellum and cortex participate in bridging between perceptual experiences in the back of the brain, and action, in the front of the brain, researchers said in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
The female connections likely facilitate integration of the analytic and sequential processing modes of the left hemisphere with the spatial, intuitive information processing modes of the right side.The authors observed only a few gender differences in the connectivity in children younger than 13 years, but the differences were more pronounced in adolescents aged 14 to 17 years and young adults older than 17.
This suggests male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action.
In contrast, in females, the wiring goes between the left and right hemispheres, suggesting that they facilitate communication between the analytical and intuition.
"These maps show us a stark difference - and complementarity - in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others," said Verma, who has a PhD in computer vision and mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology
In the study, Verma and colleagues investigated the gender-specific differences in brain connectivity during the course of development in 949 individuals (521 females and 428 males) aged 8 to 22 years using diffusion tensor imaging.
DTI is water-based imaging technique that can trace and highlight the fiber pathways connecting the different regions of the brain, laying the foundation for a structural connective or network of the whole brain. Researchers found that females displayed greater connectivity in the supratentorial region, which contains the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, between the left and right hemispheres.
Males, on the other hand, displayed greater connectivity within each hemisphere.
By contrast, the opposite prevailed in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that plays a major role in motor control, where males displayed greater inter-hemispheric connectivity and females displayed greater intra-hemispheric connectivity.
These connections likely give men an efficient system for coordinated action, where the cerebellum and cortex participate in bridging between perceptual experiences in the back of the brain, and action, in the front of the brain, researchers said in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
The female connections likely facilitate integration of the analytic and sequential processing modes of the left hemisphere with the spatial, intuitive information processing modes of the right side.The authors observed only a few gender differences in the connectivity in children younger than 13 years, but the differences were more pronounced in adolescents aged 14 to 17 years and young adults older than 17.
Source:University of pennyslvania
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