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From the Wikipedia article "Neuroscience of sex differences": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro

From the Wikipedia article "Neuroscience of sex differences": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference... Lateralization appears to differ between in the sexes with men having a more lateralized brain. This is based on differences in "left" and "right" brained abilities. One factor which contributes support to the idea that there is a sex difference in brain lateralization is that men are more likely to be left handed. However, it is unclear whether this is due to a difference in lateralization.[6] Meta-analysis of grey matter in the brain found sexually dimorphic areas of the brain in both volume and density. When synthesized, these differences show volume increases for males tend to be on the left side of systems, while females generally see greater volume in the right hemisphere.[2] However, based on a number of studies using different measurement techniques, there is no significant difference between male and female brain lateralization

pjc50 7y ago
.. isn't the relevance of this specifically what the top-of-thread article is arguing against? That the existence of brain dimorphism doesn't actually affect the problem solving?
JulianMorrison 7y ago
If you divided people into athletes and pianists, you would find dimorphic brain differences too, because 1. We learn 2. Learning is physical, because it occurs in the brain 3. Over time, learning is reflected in detectable physical differences in the brain The reason that studies like this one are looking at children is that they are trying to minimize the role of established patterns of use in creating brain differences. In other words, differences arising from culture.