Male brains 'not wired' to listen to women

[Ron G.]

http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=63452&pt=n

FRIDAY 05/08/2005 12:54:46

Male brains 'not wired' to listen to women

Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse.

Scientists have found that women`s voices are more difficult for men to listen to than men`s.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield tracked activity in the brains of 12 men while playing recordings of different voices.

There were startling differences in the way the brain responded to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music.

Male voices engaged a simpler mechanism at the back of the brain.

Researcher Dr Michael Hunter said today: "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural `melody` in their voices. This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice.

"When a man hears a female voice the auditory section of his brain is activated, which analyses the different sounds in order to `read` the voice and determine the auditory face.

"When men hear a male voice the part of the brain that processes the information is towards the back of the brain and is colloquially known as the `mind`s eye`. This is the part of the brain where people compare their experiences to themselves, so the man is comparing his own voice to the new voice to determine gender."

The findings, published in the journal NeuroImage, may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, say the scientists.

It could be that the brain finds it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

[Belle]

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Male brains 'not wired' to listen to women

Well, gee, Ron, we coulda told ya that!!

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[LG]

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Originally posted by Belle:

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Male brains 'not wired' to listen to women

Well, gee, Ron, we coulda told ya that!!

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And we coulda told ya this:

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... women`s voices are more difficult for men to listen to than men`s.

Unless, of course, the women lower both the pitch and the volume in a certain way, if you know what I mean.

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[Radar OReilly]

If male brains aren't wired not to listen to women........I wonder who all these men are that are making PHONE SEX & 900 numbers so profitable?

Just a question.......... :D-->

ror

[Shellon]

HA!

ROFL!

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[Tom Strange]

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If male brains aren't wired not to listen to women........I wonder who all these men are that are making PHONE SEX & 900 numbers so profitable?

ROR (hello friend)...

how do you really know they're men?

they could be women disguising their voices...

[Radar OReilly]

Strange One,

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ror

[mstar1]

Its not hard to listen to women, its just near impossible to understand what they mean most of the time....

[ex70sHouston]

Men hear what women say. We by reflex don't use the energy required to comprehend because we have learned that all we will hear is gripping and how we have done it wrong again. So its better for her to be mad because we wern't listing than to be madder because we did hear.

[dmiller]

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Originally posted by Radar O'Reilly:

If male brains are wired to not listen to women........I wonder who all these men are that are making PHONE SEX & 900 numbers so profitable?

Just a question.......... :D-->

ror

Radar -- just goes to show ya that men can be *wired in* if they wanna be!

(Occassionally by choice)

[TheEvan]

Hmmn? Were you saying something?

[Kit Sober]

True: I was read in a magazine a "joke" that went something like this,

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A man his wife were reading the newspaper across the breakfast table, and the man said, "Honey it says here there was a study that showed women talk twice as much as men."

"Naturally," the wife said, "Men make women repeat everything they say."

"What?" said the husband.

I read the the "joke" to Fred, my husband, and he said............

"what?"

no kidding.

[CoolWaters]

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Originally posted by Long Gone:

Unless, of course, the women lower both the pitch and the volume in a certain way, if you know what I mean.

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This is the point, is it not?

Which is quite disturbing if ya think about it...

We women sound our 'best' to men when we sound like other men...

[LG]

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Originally posted by CoolWaters:

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Originally posted by Long Gone:

Unless, of course, the women lower both the pitch and the volume in a certain way, if you know what I mean.

:D--> :D--> :D-->

This is the point, is it not?

Which is quite disturbing if ya think about it...

We women sound our 'best' to men when we sound like other men...

Having never had a man speak to me "in a certain way," I wouldn't know. I was just trying to be funny (a vain pursuit, I know).

[CoolWaters]

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Originally posted by Long Gone:

I was just trying to be funny (a vain pursuit, I know).

I was just trying to be funny, too...which, obviously, is a vain pursuit for me, too. Sigh.

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[Kit Sober]

Practicing the art of funny is always good food for thought.

Jesus was a master at this (e.g., John 21:5).

:)-->Kit

[Shellon]

This dude left his bride at the gas station.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/08...reut/index.html