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Are Male and Female Brains Different?
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Are Male and Female Brains Different?
  • Published_at:2014-07-28
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  • description: SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. ***CLICK "SHOW MORE" FOR REFERENCES AND LINKS*** BrainCraft is written and hosted by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) for PBS Digital Studios. Follow BrainCraft on Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill or https://twitter.com/Brain_Craft Tumblr http://braincraft.tumblr.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Braincraft Google+ https://www.google.com/+braincraftvideo Check out some of my other videos! This is How Your Brain Grows http://youtu.be/aucscX191vQ The Psychology of Personal Space http://youtu.be/nm-VzJZXDBc Thank you to Derek from Veritasium for voicing parts of this video: https://www.youtube.com/veritasium The quick test in this video is based on my experience of various Multi-tasking Ability Tests. This is a more detailed one that allows interactivity: https://psych.newcastle.edu.au/~ae273/GateKeeper/GateKeeper.html References: Ardekani, B. A., Figarsky, K., & Sidtis, J. J. (2013). Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum: an MRI study using the OASIS brain database. Cerebral Cortex, 23(10), 2514-2520. http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/10/2514 Cahill, L. (2006). Why sex matters for neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7(6), 477-484. http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n6/full/nrn1909.html Carothers, B. J., & Reis, H. T. (2013). Men and women are from Earth: Examining the latent structure of gender. Journal of personality and social psychology, 104(2), 385. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Men-and-women-are-from-Earth-Examining-the-latent-structure-of-gender..pdf Danaher, K., & Crandall, C. S. (2008). Stereotype threat in applied settings re‐examined. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(6), 1639-1655. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00362.x/abstract Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G., Levine, S. C., & Beilock, S. L. (2012). The role of parents and teachers in the development of gender-related math attitudes.Sex Roles, 66(3-4), 153-166. http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/Gunderson_et_al_2012_Sex_Roles.pdf Luders, E., Toga, A. W., & Thompson, P. M. (2014). Why size matters: Differences in brain volume account for apparent sex differences in callosal anatomy: The sexual dimorphism of the corpus callosum. NeuroImage, 84, 820-824. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913009762 Joel, D. (2011). Male or female? Brains are intersex. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176412/ McCarthy, M. M., & Konkle, A. (2005). When is a sex difference not a sex difference?. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 26(2), 85-102. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/7676066_When_is_a_sex_difference_not_a_sex_difference/file/79e415101507a68495.pdf Shapiro, J. R., & Williams, A. M. (2012). The role of stereotype threats in undermining girls’ and women’s performance and interest in STEM fields. Sex Roles, 66(3-4), 175-183. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-011-0051-0 Shors, T. J., Chua, C., & Falduto, J. (2001). Sex differences and opposite effects of stress on dendritic spine density in the male versus female hippocampus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21(16), 6292-6297. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/21/16/6292.full → This is really interesting I just didn’t have time to include it Stoet, G., O'Connor, D. B., Conner, M., & Laws, K. R. (2013). Are women better than men at multi-tasking?. BMC Psychology, 1(1), 18.http://www.biomedcentral.com/2050-7283/1/18 Strayer, D. L., Medeiros-Ward, N., & Watson, J. M. (2013). Gender Invariance in Multitasking A Comment on Mäntylä (2013). Psychological science, 24(5), 809-810. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236138721_Gender_Invariance_in_Multitasking_A_Comment_on_Mantyla_(2013)/file/6a85e52efb5d158f57.pdf Good articles: Neuroskeptic - Men, Women, and Big PNAS Papers http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/12/03/men-women-big-pnas-papers/#.U9k_D4BdUoY Neuroskeptic - Are Men’s Brains Just Bigger? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/09/25/are-mens-brains-just-bigger/#.U9k_HYBdUoY Neurophilosophy - Male brain versus female brain: How do they differ? http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2013/oct/06/male-brain-versus-female-brain Images: User-FastFission-brain via Wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:User-FastFission-brain.gif
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