My friends often give me materials to use for collage. Most of them are women’s magazines and I enjoy reading them as well as cutting them up. Recently I came across an interesting article in O magazine. It talked about the one percent difference between male and female brains as explained by Louann Brizendine in her book The Female Brain.
When we started studying the skull in my drawing class, I brought in the article and amused the students by reading it to them. I’ll relate a few of the ideas here:
A baby girl’s skills in eye contact and face studying improve more than 400 percent during the first three months of life. Making eye contact is “at the bottom of (the baby boy’s) list of interesting things to do.”Men use about 7,000 words a day, women about 20,000.
Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl’s brain, providing a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside the big “O”.
The areas of the brain that tract emotion and memory formation are larger and more sensitive in the female brain.
Men have two and a half times the brain space devoted to sexual drive as women do, as well as larger brain centers for action and aggression.
While men notice subtle signs of sadness in the face only 40% of the time, women pick up on them 90% of the time.
That little one percent makes a big difference!
Posted by leya at November 9, 2008 08:15 PM