Got this from a mummy friend:
According to brain research, the following characteristics are found in girls:
* The neural connectors in the temporal lobes are stronger. This means they usually have better listening skills and a more sensually detailed memory.
* Another memory storage area - the hippocampus - is larger in girls, leading to an advantage in the language arts.
* There is more serotonin in the bloodstream and the brain which makes them biochemically less impulsive.
* Girls generally use more areas of the brain for verbal and emotive functioning and boys for spatial and mechanical functioning.
Boys, on the other hand, display a different set of abilities:
** Due to the larger areas delicated to spatial and mechanical functioning, boys on average use only half the space that females use for verbal and emotive functioning. This is what leads boy to vrooming cars across the table and zooming airplanes over your head.
** The lower levels of serotonin and oxytocin (the chemical which promotes human bodning) lead them to be more physcially impulsive and less likely to be happy to just sit and chat, compared to girls.
** The male brain is structured for compartmentalised learning. This is why girls are often better able to multitask, with fewer attention span problems.
** The male brain is better suited for symbols, abstractions, diagrams, pictures and objects moving thru space. Boys learn by being physically active and can "switch off" if faced with too much verbal explanation
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