A new research paper published today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that men and women's brains connectivity is very different which, according to the authors, gives a "potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks and women at others," matching some commonly-held stereotypes.
The study—one the largest of its kind with 949 individuals aged 8 to 22—used an imaging technique that can "trace and highlight the fiber pathways connecting the different regions of the brain, laying the foundation for a structural connectome or network of the whole brain."
Using the data captured, Dr. Ragini Verma and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine's radiology department found that men have a denser neuronal connectivity between the front and the back of the brain, while women have a greater connectivity between right and left hemispheres. The differences accentuated with age: they were less under 13 and increased as the test subjects got older.
