(Un)gendered brains
Episode 1: neuromyths
Dr. Lara Wierenga and dr. Marieke Bos talk to senior researcher Claudia Barth from Oslo University and professor Markus Hausmann from Durham University about myths on sex and gender differences in the brain.
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Literature mentioned by Claudia Barth:
- “In-vivo Dynamics of the Human Hippocampus across the Menstrual Cycle”
- “Menstrual cycle brain plasticity: Ultra-high field 7T MRI reveals changes in human medial temporal lobe volume in female adults”
Literature mentioned by Markus Hausmann:
- “The new science of cognitive sex differences”
- “The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics”
- “ Evaluating gender similarities and differences using metasynthesis.”
- “Gender stereotypes and incremental beliefs in STEM and non-STEM students in three countries: relationships with performance in cognitive tasks”
- “Arts versus science — Academic background implicitly activates gender stereotypes on cognitive abilities with threat raising men's (but lowering women's) performance”
- “Interactive effects of sex hormones and gender stereotypes on cognitive sex differences—A psychobiosocial approach”
- “Spatial anxiety and self-confidence mediate sex/gender differences in mental rotation”
- “Sex/gender differences in brain activity – it’s time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience”
- “Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size”
- “Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial—A commentary on Eliot et al. (2021)”
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Episode 1: neuromyths
Dr. Lara Wierenga and dr. Marieke Bos talk to senior researcher Claudia Barth from Oslo University and professor Markus Hausmann from Durham Univ...