Certain thinking skills are more lateralized – more dependent on one hemisphere – in the male brain than in the female.
For some types of tasks, especially those involving language, men seem to rely more heavily on one side of the brain whereas women tend to use both sides. This is incredibly interesting, but consider this:
First, in these studies both sexes usually do equally well on the task at hand. So what does the lateralization difference actually mean for anyone's behavior in real life? Who knows?
Second, the overlap between the sexes in these studies is often greater than any average difference between them. Scientists keep saying this, but no one seems to listen.
Third, sex differences in the brain could be the result rather than the cause of behavioral differences. Experiences in life are constantly sculpting the circuitry of the brain, affecting the way brains are organized and how they function. For example, bilingual people who learned both of their......

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Title: Brains
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