Men have known it for years, women have known it for years, but finally, we have incorrigible proof.

A team of researchers at the  University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nearly 1,000 men, women, boys and girls and found some very real differences.

Interestingly, men’s brains (blue) tended to be wired from front-to-back, with very little crossing over between the two hemispheres. In women (orange), the connections tended to bridge the two hemispheres almost constantly.

These findings help confirm that age-old suspicion that men are better at performing single tasks, while women are better at multitasking. The test guinea-pigs were also asked to perform some cognitive tests, the results of which also supported this notion.

Other results showed that women scored well on attention, word and face memory, and social cognition, while men performed better on spatial processing and sensori-motor speed.

Although, questions still remain about gender conditioning, whether women have been somehow coerced into thinking in a certain way. And then there is also the fact that brain connections may change often during an individual’s lifetime.

[Source : BBC]