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Gender Differences in Human Neuropsychological Function

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Sexual Differentiation

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 11))

Abstract

Scientific studies of sex differences in cognitive abilities have been stimulated by a long history of popular interest in psychological differences between men and women. According to Anastasi, when Samuel Johnson was asked whether men or women were more intelligent, he replied by asking, “Which man, which woman?” (p. 453, Anastasi, 1958). Johnson’s reply highlights the fact that for a very large number of cognitive capacities (e.g., vocabulary, verbal reasoning, the ability to recognize an object from incomplete parts), no consistent sex differences exist. For other cognitive characteristics, the average difference between sexes is very small compared to within-gender variations. As Anastasi (1958) says, “Owing to the large extent of individual differences within any one group as contrasted to the relatively small difference between group averages, an individual’s membership in a given group furnishes little or no information about his status in most traits” (p. 453).

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Levy, J., Heller, W. (1992). Gender Differences in Human Neuropsychological Function. In: Gerall, A.A., Moltz, H., Ward, I.L. (eds) Sexual Differentiation. Handbooks of Behavioral Neurobiology, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2453-7_8

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