Grey Matter Research Paper

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Even though people today are fighting over gender equality, are they truly equal? Centuries ago men were the breadwinners while women stayed at home, but it's 2016 now and times are changing. Women are in the workforce and some at the breadwinners of the family. So since the fight for equality has come this far, can a male and female truly be equal? Researchers have done many experiments on this question. Obviously a male and a female have various physical differences which could possibly be changed with the help of surgery, but do their brains think the same way? Do their different hormones change the way their brain works? Is one gender smarter than the other? These questions are being tested all over the world. There is a big controversy …show more content…
Male brains utilize nearly seven times more grey matter for activity while female brains utilize almost ten times more white matter. Grey matter is information and action processing centers in specific places in a specific area of the brain. This can cause a tunnel like vision when males are doing something. When they are deeply engaged in something they are doing they may not show much sensitivity to other people or their surroundings. White matter is the networking center that connects the brains grey matter and other processing centers with each other. This brain processing difference is most likely the reason you've noticed that women tend to quickly transition between tasks rather than men. The difference between both genders white and grey matter may explain why, in adulthood, women are great at multitasking, while men excel in highly task focused …show more content…
Dominant chemicals in our body are serotonin, which helps us sit still; testosterone, which is our sex and aggression hormone; estrogen, which is a female growth and reproductive chemical; and oxytocin, which is our bonding relationship chemical. Because of how we process each of these chemicals differently, males tend to be less able to sit still as long as females, and are more physically impulsive and aggressive. Females also have a larger hippocampus, which is our human memory center. They also have a higher density of neural connections in the hippocampus. This results in females being better at absorbing more sensorial and emotional information than males. You will notice how females tend to sense a lot more of what is going on around them. Before babies are even born, their genders determined how their brain was going to work. The right and left hemisphere of the male and female brains are not set up the exact same way. Male have verbal centers on just the left side of the brain while women have them on both sides. That's why when discussing feelings and emotions, women are at an advantage and they have more of an interest in discussion theses