Gina Rippon, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Aston Brain Centre, talking about "The myth of male and female brains", on the Humans Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
For centuries, brain research has focussed on finding evidence of the essential difference between women’s and men’s brains, with concepts such as "hard-wiring" and "the natural order of things" used to explain and sustain gender gaps in all spheres of activity. But in the 21st century , we have a much better idea of how much the brain is ruled by what is going on around it. Join Gina Rippon as she explores how, rather than a fixed biological blueprint sexing the brain, a gendered world produces a gendered brain. Gina Rippon's research involves state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate how the brain interacts with its world, and what happens when this process goes wrong. She is an outspoken critic of the misuse of neuroscience research to misrepresent our understanding of the brain and, most particularly, to prop up outdated gender stereotypes. In her new book The Gendered Brain, she challenges the idea that there male and female brains, and offers a 21st century model for better understanding of how brains get to be different. ina Rippon (born 1950)[ is professor of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, has also sat on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychophysiology. Her book, Gendered Brain: the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, maintains biology plays no core role in differentiating female brains from male brains. As a watershed in the history of science, Rippon considers her findings comparable to "the idea of the Earth circling around the sun. Rippon's research involves the application of brain imaging techniques, particularly electroencephalography,(EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) using cognitive neuroscience paradigms to studies of normal and abnormal cognitive processes. This work has been applied to the study of Autistic Spectrum Disorders and to developmental dyslexia
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