Differences between Men and Women

Brain connections
Generally, the connection between the front and back regions are stronger in men’s brains while the connection across the left and right hemispheres are stronger in women’s.

Men tend to think more logically or rationally because their brains perform tasks to a greater extent on the left side. Women’s thought processes are more a little more complex because of their larger corpus callosum, which makes their brains transfer data between the right and left hemispheres of the brain at a much faster pace than men. (5)

Hearing and language abilities
In the parts of the brain where language and hearing are located, women’s brains have 11 percent more neurons than men’s.

As a result, women hear better and can distinguish between a wider range of emotional tones in humans. Experts believe that this is because women are naturally designed to be nurturers so the ability to hear and interpret a baby’s cries is crucial. It seems that this skill manifests even in infants because female babies are more likely to respond to the cries of another baby.

Furthermore, men and women process white noise differently. While women have a strong reaction to both music and white noise, men responded to the music but tuned out the white noise. This trait may be due to testosterone’s impact on the auditory system during male fetal brain development, which makes it block out repetitious stimuli as well as unwanted noise. (6)

Verbal expression of negative emotions
Women are better than men at verbalizing their emotions. This is hardly surprising, but what’s interesting is that both males and females start out the same in terms of their ability to verbalize their emotions.

Young kids, whose amygdala (where negative emotions were localized) has very few direct connections with the cerebral cortex (language and reasoning center), generally have a hard time expressing how they feel verbally.

However, when females enter puberty, a huge chunk of their brain activity linked to negative emotions goes from the amygdala to the cerebral cortex. This doesn’t happen in males, which is why they rarely want to talk about how they feel, especially when they are going through a rough time. (7)(8)