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How to determine the sex of the brain
“A real man and a real woman are extreme forms of a continuous spectrum in which many different variants are possible,” says biologist Asya Kazantseva.
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It is known that shellfish and some fish can change their sex throughout life. For example, in oysters, the frequency of sex changes depends on ... the water temperature. People are more complicated.
In the first weeks of formation, all embryos are endowed with female sexual characteristics. And only after the 9th week comes certainty.
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Eggs that are fertilized by sperm with the male Y chromosome gradually turn into boys. And embryos with the XX chromosome set continue to develop as girls.
Being born a girl does not mean thinking like a woman. Our physical sex is often different from our brain sex. This has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
The sex of your brain does not determine your sexual preferences, but how your brain works and how it perceives reality. This is called male and female typop thinking. According to statistics, about every tenth woman has a male type of thinking, and every fifth man has a female one.
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Recent research suggests that the brains of men and women do have differences that explain the strengths and weaknesses of both sexes. But the results are far from indisputable...
Paradoxically, interest in the topic of sex differences in the human brain grew out of scientists trying to prove that they do not exist at all. When the American psychologist David Wexler wrote his famous IQ test in the 1950s, he found that most of the existing jobs worked for either men or women.
For a long time he sought universal tasks for both sexes, but all attempts ended in failure. Unable to find a neutral tool, the scientist simply balanced the number of questions appropriate for women and men.
However, the differences between men and women persisted over and over again, so that Wexler eventually wrote: “Our research confirms what poets and writers often notice and believe, namely, that men not only behave, but also think differently than women do.”
Owners of male and female brains, regardless of their physical sex, see and perceive the world and each other differently. They react differently to stress and threats. People and events are evaluated differently.
The reason for the differences is not traditional education, it lies much deeper in the structure of the brain. Even in the womb, under the influence of hormones, brain development is directed according to the female or male type.
“More and more studies show that the male brain and the female brain are much more different than we thought,” says neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Luanne Brisendein, author of “The Female Brain and the Male Brain.”
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Tatiana Chernigovskaya, a neuroscience and psycholinguistics scientist, says: “Women have more connections between the hemispheres, therefore, the social life of the brain is more extensive.”
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In the female brain, responsibility for different functions is distributed between regions, and both hemispheres are often connected to the same task. Women process information in a more complex way - emotions are always mixed with logic.
Where the male brain will perceive only words, the female will also register the facial expression of the interlocutor, the language of his body, catch the intonation and subtext and thus perceive not only expressed, but also unspoken thoughts.
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Many of the qualities that we traditionally associate with physical sex are actually determined by the gender of the brain. For example, male and female brains respond differently to threats.
Male brains Depending on the balance of forces, he decides to either fight or escape. The female brain, when threatened, primarily seeks help and support.
But traditionally, such qualities are associated with physical sex, not with the type of thinking. Therefore, a man with a female brain may be considered too cautious and cautious. And a woman, the owner of a male brain, on the contrary, is very brave and decisive.
In reality, though, this has nothing to do with cowardice or courage, but simply with the ways in which women and men think.
And here's what's interesting. It is possible to change your physical sex with the help of plastic surgery and hormone therapy. Here's a change. brain No one and nothing is able: no education, no environment, no agitation, no social standards.
To find out to what extent your brain is tuned to a male or female way, will help the test from the book Boris Lemberg “What gender is your brain”. There are no right or wrong answers in this test, it only gives an idea of the peculiarities of your thinking. Answer the test questions only "yes" or "no".
Take a test and find out what sex your brain is!
You get 1 point for each positive answer to questions 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17. And 1 point for each negative answer to questions 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20.
The closer your overall score is to 20, the more feminine your brain is. The closer your overall score is to 1, the more male it is.
If you don't know who your enemy is, how can you win the war? It's even worse when you don't know who you are. Then you're 100% guaranteed defeat.
There is no better or worse brain. There is an opportunity to know your own, so as not to break yourself and not try to cultivate those qualities and abilities that do not correspond to your type of thinking.
And more importantly, to avoid blaming yourself for traits that, in terms of social stereotypes, don’t match your physical sex.
Finding yourself is the main task of man. We offer to pass at leisure a very interesting and accurate test for determining the type of personality. You just need to answer 4 questions and get your own combination of letters, and we will tell you about the result.
Editorial "Site" He will tell you about the research of American doctors, which destroys many myths about the brain of an elderly person.
DepositPhotos
It is known that shellfish and some fish can change their sex throughout life. For example, in oysters, the frequency of sex changes depends on ... the water temperature. People are more complicated.
In the first weeks of formation, all embryos are endowed with female sexual characteristics. And only after the 9th week comes certainty.
DepositPhotos
Eggs that are fertilized by sperm with the male Y chromosome gradually turn into boys. And embryos with the XX chromosome set continue to develop as girls.
Being born a girl does not mean thinking like a woman. Our physical sex is often different from our brain sex. This has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
The sex of your brain does not determine your sexual preferences, but how your brain works and how it perceives reality. This is called male and female typop thinking. According to statistics, about every tenth woman has a male type of thinking, and every fifth man has a female one.
DepositPhotos
Recent research suggests that the brains of men and women do have differences that explain the strengths and weaknesses of both sexes. But the results are far from indisputable...
Paradoxically, interest in the topic of sex differences in the human brain grew out of scientists trying to prove that they do not exist at all. When the American psychologist David Wexler wrote his famous IQ test in the 1950s, he found that most of the existing jobs worked for either men or women.
For a long time he sought universal tasks for both sexes, but all attempts ended in failure. Unable to find a neutral tool, the scientist simply balanced the number of questions appropriate for women and men.
However, the differences between men and women persisted over and over again, so that Wexler eventually wrote: “Our research confirms what poets and writers often notice and believe, namely, that men not only behave, but also think differently than women do.”
Owners of male and female brains, regardless of their physical sex, see and perceive the world and each other differently. They react differently to stress and threats. People and events are evaluated differently.
The reason for the differences is not traditional education, it lies much deeper in the structure of the brain. Even in the womb, under the influence of hormones, brain development is directed according to the female or male type.
“More and more studies show that the male brain and the female brain are much more different than we thought,” says neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Luanne Brisendein, author of “The Female Brain and the Male Brain.”
285165
Tatiana Chernigovskaya, a neuroscience and psycholinguistics scientist, says: “Women have more connections between the hemispheres, therefore, the social life of the brain is more extensive.”
DepositPhotos
In the female brain, responsibility for different functions is distributed between regions, and both hemispheres are often connected to the same task. Women process information in a more complex way - emotions are always mixed with logic.
Where the male brain will perceive only words, the female will also register the facial expression of the interlocutor, the language of his body, catch the intonation and subtext and thus perceive not only expressed, but also unspoken thoughts.
DepositPhotos
Many of the qualities that we traditionally associate with physical sex are actually determined by the gender of the brain. For example, male and female brains respond differently to threats.
Male brains Depending on the balance of forces, he decides to either fight or escape. The female brain, when threatened, primarily seeks help and support.
But traditionally, such qualities are associated with physical sex, not with the type of thinking. Therefore, a man with a female brain may be considered too cautious and cautious. And a woman, the owner of a male brain, on the contrary, is very brave and decisive.
In reality, though, this has nothing to do with cowardice or courage, but simply with the ways in which women and men think.
And here's what's interesting. It is possible to change your physical sex with the help of plastic surgery and hormone therapy. Here's a change. brain No one and nothing is able: no education, no environment, no agitation, no social standards.
To find out to what extent your brain is tuned to a male or female way, will help the test from the book Boris Lemberg “What gender is your brain”. There are no right or wrong answers in this test, it only gives an idea of the peculiarities of your thinking. Answer the test questions only "yes" or "no".
Take a test and find out what sex your brain is!
- I often sing when I am alone.
- As a child, it was very important for me to win.
- I can easily hear what people say in a crowded room.
- As a child, I enjoyed climbing as high as possible up a tree.
- If someone interrupts me when I'm busy, it's hard to get back to business.
- I easily do several things at the same time.
- I can tell by a man's face what's on his soul.
- I like to collect different things and sort them into categories.
- I solve problems more often with intuition than with logic.
- As a child, I liked games where I portrayed other people (real or invented).
- It was easy for me to write in school. I didn't do dunks.
- As a child, I loved taking things apart to understand how they worked.
- I quickly get bored of the same thing. I am comfortable with different tasks.
- I don’t like fast driving, it makes me nervous.
- I like reading novels more than journalism.
- I find it easier to find my way by map than by street signs.
- I communicate regularly with family and friends.
- As a child, I liked to play with physical activity.
- I can easily imagine things in three dimensions. For example, I can imagine what the building will look like on the sketch of the architect.
- As a child, I liked to improve things and make them more beautiful.
You get 1 point for each positive answer to questions 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17. And 1 point for each negative answer to questions 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20.
The closer your overall score is to 20, the more feminine your brain is. The closer your overall score is to 1, the more male it is.
If you don't know who your enemy is, how can you win the war? It's even worse when you don't know who you are. Then you're 100% guaranteed defeat.
There is no better or worse brain. There is an opportunity to know your own, so as not to break yourself and not try to cultivate those qualities and abilities that do not correspond to your type of thinking.
And more importantly, to avoid blaming yourself for traits that, in terms of social stereotypes, don’t match your physical sex.
Finding yourself is the main task of man. We offer to pass at leisure a very interesting and accurate test for determining the type of personality. You just need to answer 4 questions and get your own combination of letters, and we will tell you about the result.
Editorial "Site" He will tell you about the research of American doctors, which destroys many myths about the brain of an elderly person.
