明天, 今天, 昨天(ghostneuron)

June 16, 2008

Tell sex from brain

Filed under: Neuroscience

 

A recent study has confirmed the previous discovery that lesbian or gay has a biological foundation:   "The scans showed the right side of the brain in heterosexual men was typically 2% larger than the left. Lesbians showed a similar asymmetry, with the right hand side of the brain 1% larger than the left. Scans on homosexual men and heterosexual women revealed both sides of the brain were the same size."……"They found heterosexual women and gay men shared brain circuitry linking a region called the amygdala, which plays a key role in emotional responses, to other parts of the brain."

This old topic once interested me some time ago with a small blog….who knows the behavior could not be mimic by A.I. ? And "The Voight-Kampff empathy test is not far away from the sort of thing that cognitive neuroscientists are actually doing today" (Chris Frith)…


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