Brain, Vol. 123, No. 2, 404-406,
February 2000
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Language processing in both sexes: evidence from brain studies
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to:
Dr Jenny Harasty, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, AustraliaE-mail: j.harasty@unsw.edu.au
Thank you for the interesting paper by Frost et al. (Frost et al., 1999
). As they suggest, understanding sex differences in the human brain is not trivial. Many studies of disease groups are conducted on one sex only and extrapolated across genders. Indeed, the basis of the Talairach atlas is one example of this approach. Therefore, determining whether clear sex differences exist in language-associated brain is important for future work.
The work by Frost et al. adds important data to this confusing field. They report no differences between men and women on a semantic monitoring task (identify if an animal is `found in the United States' and `used by human') and then report no differences in functional MRI brain activation. The authors should be commended for
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Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Correspondence to:
Jeffrey Binder, Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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