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Are Women Really Better at Language? Thursday, March 06, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology
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Scientific literature has been littered with studies over the past 40 years documenting the superior language skills of girls, but the biological reason why has remained a mystery until now. Researchers report in the journal Neuropsychologia that the answer lies in the way words are processed: Girls completing a linguistic abilities task showed greater activity in brain areas implicated specifically in language encoding, which decipher... (source: sciam.com)
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