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The Female Brain

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Fanny Palacios Avatar
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Posted: 03.11.11, 11:29 PM
I need to watch Female Brain in fora.tv
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yogurtking Avatar
yogurtking
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Posted: 10.02.10, 05:14 PM
Precisely, Gestalt. Nature/Nurture is a construction. She explicitly states the brain is nature. The monkey example, rocketdog, is a "nurture (tying the finger) event to which the brain responds. You're complaining about a straw man.

It would also help to provide an alternate position, at least in brief. "I don't buy it," usually doesn't get us very far in respect to knowledge and insight.
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Gestalt Lioness
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Posted: 05.12.10, 10:54 AM
I've just listened to the presentation. Her position is quite different from dismissing nurture. What she claims is that the "nature vs. nurture" debate is dead now: with the discovery of neuroplasticity of the brain it became a false dichotomy. We now know that experience ("nurture") acts on the brain ("nature") and changes it. As a psychotherapist, I cannot agree more.
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PaulaValeria Avatar
PaulaValeria
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Posted: 12.21.06, 06:34 AM
OK, it's a free country, you think what ever you want, but I assure her work it's more solid than appears.
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rocketdog Avatar
rocketdog
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Posted: 12.14.06, 06:27 PM
Well ok, sure...technically speaking I wasn't criticizing her book, I was criticizing her presentation of it here on ForaTv. It may be true that Brizendine stresses the importance of environmental factors on gender differences in her book, but she seems fairly dismissive of them here. For that reason, I think my point is still a valid one.
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PaulaValeria
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Posted: 12.12.06, 05:45 PM
Sorry, but I'm reading the book.She did a lot of research and she's not implying at all the cultural/social causes doesn't have any effects.Actually she mention this facts all the time.I think to critize her work you should read her book first and not just reviews or a short presentation on her essay.
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McGruff
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Posted: 12.12.06, 01:07 PM
Dr. Brizendine's work has been under attack from many corners of academia since her book's release. And not without good reason; efforts to fact-check her sources have revealed less-than-stellar research on her part.
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rocketdog
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Posted: 12.11.06, 05:54 PM
I've got to admit that I found this presentation to be more than a little bit infuriating, and not just because of Brizendine's vaguely condescending soccer-mom lecture style. She seems to be saying that the nature v. nurture debate has already been decided in nature's favor, attributing just about every nuanced personality distinction between men and women solely to brain development, while virtually dismissing out of hand the possibility that any of these distinctions could be due to cultural or other environmental causes. I'm no psychologist, but that sounds like a fairly controversial stance to take (and I see that a quick Googling of Brizendine's name will more than back me up on that). Sorry, Soccer Mom -- I'm not buying it.
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