Brain: men maths, women memory
September 17th 2011 11:14
Why do women spend 30 times more time and 25 times more money than men when asked to get a pair of trousers from a showroom in a mall? It's the brain make-up, says C Edward Coffey, a US-based neuropsychiatrist.
When Coffey delivered the ninth MV Arunachalam endowment lecture in the city, presenting the Venus-Mars dichotomy in a scientific light, a 200-strong audience of doctors sat in rapt attention. Driving home the point of 'different brains, different minds' Coffey narrated the experiment involving male and female shoppers.
A group of women and men in the US were left inside a mall and asked to visit a particular showroom to pick a pair of trousers. The men returned in an average of 6 minutes, spending $33 each. The women came after nearly three-and-a-half hours and spent an average of $876 each.
In his 45-minute lecture that focused on the structural difference between the male and the female brain, the scientist from the Henry Ford Health Systems had the audience at times in pin-drop silence, sometimes in splits. "Men have larger brains," he said, and added before the men in the gathering could smile, "but women have more grey matter."
Changes in the brain structure are seen during their growth stage of a child, he said. Research showed that boys at nine years have a bigger cortex, but as they grow, the frontal lobe thickness decreases. In women, the posterior region of the brain is usually thinner.
"This is why probably men are more systematic, while women are more empathetic," Coffey said. Men have better navigation skills and are more aggressive as a hunter. Women are more passionate, emotional and talkative.
Many girls, as young as two years, talk with greater fluency and ease than boys of the same age. They outdo boys in schools in reading but are generally weaker in math. Studies have shown that more women have better verbal fluency, knowledge of synonyms and memory, compared to men. "Don't men always lose in arguments to their wives?" he asked.
And before the audience could come to a conclusion, he said most of his research papers were statements for women and men in groups and not specific to any woman or man. A number of factors, including experience, culture and environment, play a vital role in forming perceptions, he said.
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Comment by Michael 2
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Sorry about that shopping thing though!
Like most men I don't really understand how you can save money by buying things on sale. When I want to save money, I don't buy anything.
Fruit cake on sale is well, still, fruitcake. Sure you can hammer a cat with it but you can't eat it!
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I guess maybe my brain is more male than female although I'm still pretty good on the words.
Seems you are too.
shopping, I always give it a miss whenever I can, but food, we all have to do that.
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