Spoiler: The study everyone’s talking about is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Today lots of media outlets are reporting on a study that claims to have found that male and female brains are "wired differently".
The scientists claim to have found that women's brains have more connections between the left and right hemispheres, whereas men's brains have more connections within the hemispheres.
The study mapped neural connections in the brains of 428 males and 521 females aged eight to 22.
Previous studies have shown that the left and right hemispheres tend towards different tasks. So today's findings have been said to explain why women are supposedly better at, for example, multitasking and men are better at reading maps.
The Independent / Via tangledwoof.wordpress.com
Men's and women's brains are different. But we don't know how these differences relate to behaviour.
In general, men have larger brains than women. They also have more white matter, whereas women have more grey matter. For a great background read on this try Mo Costandi's post at the Guardian.
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