Brain gender

Biological Differences

Size Matters: neuroanatomy

• Crebral volume of gray matter
• size of the corpus callosum
• Broca's and Wernicke's area

Human Brain under mri

Who's smarter

IQ testing

• MRI helps map the brain

women

• excel on tests that measure memory
• can find complex images faster
• faster at identifying matching items
• preform better on precision manual tasks

men

• better at rotating or manipulating images
• mathematical reasoning
• navigation
• more accuracy in direct motor skills

Hormones and behavior

what if hormones were removed?

• androgens
• adding and removing the hormones