male and female participants performed equally on tasks, both in terms of accuracy and timing; they just used different parts of their brains to get the tasks done," said Amy Clements, lead author of the study. "This study forms the basis for understanding early developmental preferences that may differ between boys and girls. Future studies based on these findings may help illuminate more about improved special and mainstream education techniques for males and females."
I can't help wondering whether this could help as a diagnostic for gender dysphoria that is physically based in brain developmental issues.
Brain imaging seems to be throwing up a whole load of helpful data at the moment. There's this also in respect of autistic men.
Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, said the findings supported the theory that changes in the amygdala were associated with autism.
"The amygdala is part of a network called the social brain and it is involved in making sense of other people's actions and interpreting other people's expressions of emotion. It's a possibility that these abnormalities in the amygdala in autism causally relate to their social difficulties," he said.
At one level that's not new, but it does confirm the way that the front-running theory was going. However, it may be that this is effect, not cause, so more study will be required to confirm which of those is most likely. Since there is a gendor bias in autism, there may also be fe/male ramifications emerging from this.
ScienceDaily: Study Confirms Males/females Use Different Parts Of Brain In Language And Visuospatial Tasks:
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