The Myth of the Gendered Brain
It\u2019s no secret that men and women are different \u2014 it\u2019s the punchline of a hundred jokes. But does our sex really show in our brains, or is there something else at play?
\n\nGina Rippon, a neuroscientist at Aston University in the U.K. and author of \u201cGender and Our Brains,\u201d argues that sex doesn\u2019t play nearly as big a role in influencing our brains as we might think. Rather, she says, social cues likely start to influence children at very, very young ages - and it is those cues that account for many of the differences we see.