New York: According to the new research found says, there is nothing called a ‘male brain’ and a ‘female brain’. There is no gender difference in the size of the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that consolidates new memories and helps connect emotions to the senses.
Hippocampi’s are located on both sides of the brain, under the cerebral cortex. The findings challenged the common claim that a disproportionately larger hippocampus explains female’s tend to have a higher emotional expressiveness, stronger interpersonal skills and a better verbal memory.
“Many people believe there is such a thing as a ‘male brain’ and a ‘female brain,'” said lead researcher Lise Eliot, associate professor of neuroscience at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois, US.
“But when you look beyond the popularized studies at collections of all the data you often find that the differences are minimal,” Eliot explained.
The team examined findings from 76 published papers, involving more than 6,000 healthy individuals.
“Gender differences in the brain are irresistible to those looking to explain stereotypic differences between men and women,” Eliot said.
“They often make a big splash, in spite of being based on small samples. But as we explore multiple data-sets and are able to coalesce very large samples of males and females, we find these differences often disappear or are trivial,” Eliot pointed out.
