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Speak my language

Jan 19, 2007 08:48

Men and women are often said to "speak a different language." The primary explanations given for this tend to be sociological, such as Cheris Kramarae's "muted group theory." However, some anatomical theories of sex differences in language are emerging.

Shaywitz et al (1995) suggest that men's brains have greater language lateralization than ( Read more... )

language, language tasks, asymmetry, cheris kramarae, neurology, gender differences, brains, schizophrenia, mental health, sex differences, sexual dimorphism, psychology, neuroscience, gender stereotypes, sociology, gendered writing, bennit shaywitz

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differenceblog January 19 2007, 15:04:58 UTC

Miller et al were actually trying to show that handedness was sometimes an effect of brain injury -- by correlating it with language lateralization. There was a lot of leaps in that paper that I didn't think were justified, but I haven't had a chance to really dig into that one yet.