Study: Men and Women's Brains Different

"Scientists have found that the female brain is 'hard-wired' to be better at multitasking," reports UK Daily Mail of a study involving MRI images of 949 young men and women's brains.

The researchers discovered that women have far better connections between the left and right sides of the brain, while men display more intense activity within the brain’s individual parts, especially in the cerebellum, which controls motor skills.

Men also have better connections between the front and back of the brain, giving them a better ability to quickly perceive information and use it immediately to carry out complex tasks.

This means they are better at things such as learning to swim or, as the old bone of contention has it, parking a car. Women are better at, for example, remembering a face, which means making connections between different parts of the brain. [snip]

The report said: ‘The results showed fundamental sex differences in the architecture of the human brain.

‘Male brains facilitate connectivity between perception and co-ordinated action, whereas female brains facilitate communication between analytical and intuitive processing modes.'

The images below show the brain mapping that occurred in men (upper set) and women (lower set):