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Viewing Cognitive Sex Differences as Computational Biases in Dorsal-Ventral Streams
Robert F. McGivern (SDSU) and Jaime A. Pineda (UCSD)
Until the latter part of the 20th century, reports of cognitive sex differences were generally viewed as reflections of socio-cultural learning, rather than as differences in the brain organization of men and women. Maccoby and Jacklin1 challenged this assumption in 1974 in their review of more than a thousand studies conducted in the preceding decade that reported results for men and women in cognitive, social, and emotional behavior. In the cognitive realm, two consistent sex differences emerged: women generally performed better than men on several types of verbal tasks, while men were more likely to excel on spatial tasks. Little evidence was found for sex differences in general cognitive abilities such as abstract reasoning, language comprehension, or planning. These findings, coupled with subsequent reports in animals and humans of anatomical sex differences, rapidly led to broad acceptance of a strong biological component to cognitive sex differences2. (read more)

Another area of interest is the neural basis of gender

differences during visual tracking

I am interested in information processing in the brain with the primary goal of understanding the complex interplay between brain biology and cognition.

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One area of interest is the relationship between mirror neuron activity as reflected in the EEG and social cognition.

Jaime A. Pineda, Ph.D.