Mind & BrainMarch 1, 2016
Brain Differences in Boys and Girls: How Much Is Inborn?
The preference for playing hockey, or house, is far from fixed. Sex differences in the brain are small—until experiences and expectations magnify them
Stories by Lise Eliot
Lise Eliot is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University and author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps--And What We Can Do about It (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
The SciencesOctober 1, 2012
The Truth about Boys and Girls
The preference for playing hockey, or house, in the brain are small—unless grown-up house, is far from fixed. Sex differences up assumptions magnify them
The SciencesMay 1, 2010
The Truth about Boys and Girls
The preference for playing hockey, or house, is far from fixed. Sex differences in the brain are small—unless grown-up assumptions magnify them
September 8, 2009
Girl Brain, Boy Brain?
The two are not the same, but new work shows just how wrong it is to assume that all gender differences are “hardwired”