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  Brain Research In The Field Of Gender Differences

The Gurian Institute is pleased to provide you with this short bibliography of books and articles in this field.  We hope these sources will help you continue your study of this cutting edge work in human development.  You might also enjoy visiting www.newhorizons.org.



 


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Reuwen Achiron, Shlomo Lipitz, & Anat Achiron. Sex-related differences in the development of the human fetal corpus callosum: In utero ultrasonographic study. Prenatal Diagnosis, 2001: 116-120.

L. S. Allen & R. A. Gorski. Sexual dimorphism of the anterior commissure and massa intermedia of the human brain. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1991, 312:97-104.

Barbara Annis, Same Words, Different Language (2000), Piatkus, UK.

A. P. Anokhin, et.al. Complexity of electrocortical dynamics in children: developmental aspects. Developmental Psychobiology, 36:9-22, 2000.

Simon Baron-Cohen. The Essential Difference. (New York: Basic Books, 2003).

Jay Belsky, “Quantity Counts,” Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. June 2002,
pp. 167-170.

Blanton, R.E., et.al. Gender Differences in the left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Normal Children.  NeuroImage, Vol: 22, 2004.

Deborah Blum. Sex On The Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women. (Penguin Books, 1998).

Chris Boyatzis, E. Chazan, C. Z. Ting. Preschool children’s decoding of facial emotions. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 154:375-382, 1993.

Bremner, J.D., et.al. Gender differences in cognitive and neural correlates in remembrance of emotional words.  Pscyhopharmacology Bulletin, Vol: 35, 2001.

Louann Brizendine, THE FEMALE BRAIN, Morgan Roads Books, August 2006.
  
V.S. Caviness and D.N. Kennedy, et al. The human brain age 7-11 years: a volumetric analysis based on magnetic resonance differences. Cerebral Cortex, 1996, 6:726-736.

Christiansen, K. Behavioral effects of androgen in men and women, Journal of Endocrinology, Vol. 170(1), 2001.

Maria Elena Cordero, Carlos Valenzuela, Rafael Torres, Angel Rodriguez. “Sexual dimorphism in number and proportion of neurons in the human median raphe nucleus.” Developmental Brain Research, 2000. 124:43-52.

Phoebe Dewing, Tao Shi, Steve Horvath and Eric Vilain. Sexually dimorphic gene expression in mouse brain precedes gonadal differentiation. Molecular Brain Research, Volume 118, Issues 1-2, 21 October 2003, Pages 82-90.

Marian Diamond. Male and Female Brains: Lecture for Women’s Forum West Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2003.

Melissa Frederikse, Angela Lu, Elizabeth Aylward, Patrick Barta, & Godfrey Pearlson. Sex differences in the inferior parietal lobule. Cerebral Cortex, 1999, 9:896-901.

Gray, P.B. et.al., Marriage and Fatherhood associated with lower levels of testosterone.  Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 23, 2002.

George Gryn, Arthur Wunderlich, Manfred Spitzer, Reinhard Tomczak, & Matthias Riepe. Brain activation during human navigation: gender-different neural networks as substrate of performance. Nature neuroscience, April 2000, 3(4):404-408.

Gur, R.C., et. al., Sex differences in brain gray and white matter in healthy young adults, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 19, 1999.

Gur, Ruben, et. al., An fMRI study of sex differences in regional activation to a verbal and spatial task.  Brain and Language Journal, vol: 74., 2000.

Halpern, D.F., Benbow, C. P., Geary, D.C., Gur, R.C., Shibley Hyde, J., and Gernsbacher, M.A.  The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics; Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Volume 8, No. 1, August 2007).
 
Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens, THE MINDS OF BOYS (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2005)

Michael Gurian, et. al. BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY! (San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2001).

Michael Gurian. THE WONDER OF BOYS (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1997).

Michael Gurian.  THE WONDER OF GIRLS (New York: Atria, 2002).

Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens.  With Boys and Girls in Mind.  Educational Leadership. November 2004, Vol 62, #3.

Hall, J.A. & Matsumoto, D. Gender Differences in judgments of multiple emotions from facial expressions.  Emotion, Vol. 4, 2004.

Hamann, S., et.al. Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli.  Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 4, 2004.

Harriet Hanlon, Robert Thatcher, and Marvin Cline. Gender differences in the development of EEG coherence in normal children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 16(3):479-506, 1999.
 
William Killgore, Mika Oki, and Deborah Yurgelun-Todd. Sex-specific developmental changes in amygdala responses to affective faces. NeuroReport, 2001, 12:427-433.

Killgor, W.D. & Yrgelun-Todd, D.A. Sex-related developmental differences in the lateralized activation of the prefrontalcortex and amygdala during perception of facial effect.  Perceptual and Motor Skills Journal, Vol: 99, 2004.

Kimura, D. SEX AND COGNITION, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

B. Kolb & J. Cioe. Sex-related differences in cortical function after medial frontal lesions in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 1996), 110:1271-1281.

Kruger, D.J. & Nesse, R.M.  Sexual selection and the male-female mortality ratio.  Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 2, 2004.

M. de Lacoste, R. Holloway, and D. Woodward, "Sex differences in the fetal human corpus callosum," Human Neurobiology, 1986, 5(2):93-6.

Christine Mack, Robert McGivern, Lynn Hyde, & Victor Denenberg: Absence of postnatal testosterone fails to demasculinize the male rat's corpus callosum. Developmental Brain Research, 1996, 95:252-254.

Hara Estroff Marano. The Opposite Sex: The New Sex Scorecard. Psychology Today: July/August 2003, pp. 38-44.

McClure, E.B., et.al. A developmental examination of gender differences in brain engagement during evaluation of threat.  Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 55, 2004.

Anne Moir, Ph.D. and David Jessel. Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men & Women. New York: Dell Publishing, 1989.

Amanda Onion. Sex in the brain: Research showing men and women differ in more than one area. ABC News: 21 September 2004.

Michael Phillips, Mark Lowe, Joseph T. Lurito, Mario Dzemidzic, and Vincent Matthews. Temporal lobe activation demonstrates sex-based differences during passive listening. Radiology, 220:202-207, 2001.

Steven E. Rhoads. Taking Sex Differences Seriously. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004.

N. Sandstrom, J. Kaufman, S. A. Huettel. Males and females use different distal cues in a virtual environment navigation task. Brain Research: Cognitive Brain Research, 1998, 6:351-360.

D. Saucier et al., "Are sex differences in navigation caused by sexually dimorphic strategies or by differences in the ability to use the strategies?" Behavioral Neuroscience, 116:403-410, 2002.

Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters. New York: Doubleday, 2005.

Richard Schmidt. Understanding Male and Female Brain Differences: The Adult Brain. Family Therapy Magazine, vol. 3 No. 4, July/August 2004.

Frank Schneider, Ute Habel, et al. Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during sadness. Human Brain Mapping, 2000, 9:226-238.

Allan N. Schore. Effects of a secure attachment relationship on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health. Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol. 22, Issue 1-2, Date: January/April 2001, Pages: 7-66.

Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, et al. Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language. Nature, 16 February 1995, 373:607-609.

Tracey J. Shors & George Miesegaes. Testosterone in utero and at birth dictates how stressful experience will affect learning in adulthood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:13955-13960, October 15, 2002.

Salomone, R.  same, different, equal (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).

Elizabeth Sowell, et al. Development of cortical and subcortical brain structures in childhood and adolescence: a structural magnetic resonance imaging study. Dev Med Child Neurol, 44: 4-16 (2002).

Elizabeth Sowell, Arthur Toga, et al. Mapping Cortical Change Across the Human Life Span. Nature Neuroscience, 6(3):309-15 (2003).

Kathy Stevens.  How Boys and Girls Learn Differently.  Primary  Leadership. Spring 2004. Vol. 7, No. 1.

Thayer, J.F. & Johnsen, B.H. Sex differences in judgment of facial affect: A multivariate analysis of recognition errors.  Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 41,  2000.

Gwendolyn Wood & Tracey J. Shors. Stress facilitates classical conditioning in males, but impairs classical conditioning in females through activational effects of ovarian hormones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:4066-4071, 1998.



Further Research On Gender, Sensory Tasking, and Memory

Horgan, et.al. (2004) Gender Differences in Memory for the appearance of others.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 30, no. 2, 185-196.
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Cross, S. E., & Madson, L. (1997). Models of the self: Self-construals and gender. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 5-37.

Davis, L. L. (1984). Clothing and human behavior: A review. Home Economics Research Journal, 12, 325-339.

Davis, P. J. (1999). Gender differences in autobiographical memory for childhood emotional experiences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 498-510.

Doherty, R. W. (1997). The Emotional Contagion Scale: A measure of individual differences. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 21, 131-154.

Douty, H. (1963). Influence of clothing on perception of persons. Journal of Home Economics, 55, 197-202.

Driscoll, D. M., Kelly, J. R., & Henderson, W. L. (1998). Can perceivers identify likelihood to sexually harass? Sex Roles, 38, 557-588.

Eals, M.,& Silverman, I. (1994). The hunter-gatherer theory of spatial sex differences: Proximate factors mediating the female advantage in recall of object arrays. Ethology and Sociobiology, 15, 95-105.

Feinberg, R. A., Mataro, L., & Burroughs, W. J. (1992). Clothing and social identity. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 11, 18-23.

Gabriel, S., & Gardner, W. L. (1999). Are there "his" and "hers" types of interdependence? The implications of gender differences in collective versus relational interdependence for affect, behavior, and cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 642-655.

Hall, J. A. (1984). Nonverbal sex differences: Communication accuracy and expressive style. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hall J. A., Carter J. D., & Horgan, T. G. (2001). Status roles and recall of nonverbal cues. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 25, 79-100.

Harris, M. B., Harris, R. J., & Bochner, S. (1982). Fat, four-eyed, and female: Stereotypes of obesity, glasses, and gender. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 12, 503-516.

Herlitz, A., Nilsson, L. G.., & Backman, L. (1997). Gender differences in episodic memory. Memory and Cognition, 25, 801-811.

Herrmann, D. J., Crawford, M., & Holdsworth, M. (1992). Genderlinked differences in everyday memory performance. British Journal of Psychology, 83, 221-231.

Horgan, T. G. (2001). Thinking more versus less about interpreting nonverbal behavior: A gender difference in decoding style. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northeastern University.

Jackson, L. A., Sullivan, L. A., & Hymes, J. S. (1987). Gender, gender role, and physical appearance. Journal of Psychology, 121, 51-56.

Jobson, S., & Watson, J. S. (1984). Sex and age differences in choice behavior: The object-person dimension. Perception, 13, 719-724.

Johnson, B. H., Nagasawa, R. H., & Peters, K. (1977). Clothing style differences: Their effect on the impression of sociability. Home Economics Research Journal, 6, 58-63.

Kaiser, S. (1990). The social psychology of clothing. New York: Macmillan.
Knapp, M. L., & Hall, J. A. (2002). Nonverbal communication in human interaction. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning.

Kwon, Y. (1997). Sex, sex-role, facial attractiveness, social self-esteem and interest in clothing. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 84, 899-907.

Lindholm, T., & Christianson, S. A. (1998). Gender effects in eyewitness accounts of a violent crime. Psychology, Crime and Law, 4, 323-339.

Lundberg, J. K., & Sheehan, E. P. (1994). The effects of glasses and weight on perceptions of attractiveness and intelligence. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 9, 753-760.

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Mazanec, N., & McCall, G. J. (1975). Sex, cognitive categories, and observational accuracy. Psychological Reports, 37, 987-990.

McAdams, D. P., & Constantian, C. A. (1983). Intimacy and affiliation motives in daily living: An experience sampling analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 851-861.

McGivern, R. F., Mutter, K. L., Anderson, J., Wideman, G., Bodnar, M., & Huston, P. J. (1998). Gender differences in incidental learning and visual recognition memory: Support for a sex difference in unconscious environmental awareness. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 223-232.

McGuinness, D., & Symonds, J. (1977). Sex differences in choice behavior: The object-person dimension. Perception, 6, 691-694.

McKelvie, S. J. (1981). Sex differences in memory for faces. Journal of Psychology, 107, 109-125.

McKelvie, S. J., Standing, L., St. Jean, D., & Law, J. (1993). Gender differences in recognition memory for faces and cars: Evidence for the interest hypothesis. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 31, 447-448.

Nowicki, S., Jr., & Duke, M. P. (2001). Nonverbal receptivity: The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA). In J. A. Hall & F. J. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal sensitivity: Theory and measurement (pp. 183-198). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pliner, P., Chaiken, S., & Flett, G. L. (1990). Gender differences in concern with body weight and physical appearance over the life span. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 263-273.

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Richards, M. H., Crowe, P. A., Larson, R., & Swarr, A. (1998). Developmental patterns and gender differences in the experience of peer companionship during adolescence. Child Development, 69, 154-163.

Seidlitz, L., & Diener, E. (1998). Sex differences in the recall of affective experiences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 262-271.
 
Shapiro, P. N., & Penrod, S. (1986). Meta-analysis of facial identification studies. Psychological Bulletin, 100, 139-156.

Silverman, I., & Eals, M. (1992). Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 487-503). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Wells, W., & Siegel, B. (1961). Stereotyped somatypes. Psychological Reports, 8, 77-78.

Yarmey, A. D. (1993). Adult age and gender differences in eyewitness recall in field settings. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 23, 1921-1932.

Yarmey, A. D., & Jones, H. P. (1983). Accuracy of memory of male and female eyewitnesses to a criminal assault and rape. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 89-92.


 







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