Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains

[alfreda89]

By Robert Lee Hotz Times Staff Writer Thu Jun 16, 7:55 AM ET

HAMILTON, Canada — The invitation curled from her fax machine, a courtly question scrawled above the signature of a man whose name she did not recognize.

"Would you be willing to collaborate with me on studying the brain of Albert Einstein?"

It was signed Thomas Harvey. Sandra Witelson did not hesitate.

She wrote "yes" on the piece of paper and faxed it back.

"It never occurred to me that it might be a joke," she recalled. "I knew that Albert Einstein's brain had been preserved and that it was somewhere where someone was looking after it."

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Comments

[lagilman]

Okay, that's neat. That's very, very neat.

I've always suspected we process information along gender lines; it's the only thing that makes sense. But, as they say, is it purely genetic, or created/enhanced by training and expectation?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

But, as they say, is it purely genetic, or created/enhanced by training and expectation?

I suspect that it will turn out to be similar to many other things in life--a little bit of both. What it suggests to me is, I like to joke that living with a cat is my only chance to live with a sentient life form different from myself.

What if living with someone of the opposite sex is as alien as it gets?

I know my mother raised her daughters to be people please-rs--the opposite of my Myers-Briggs, apparently, causing me years of misery. It's taken me almost 30 years to overcome it. Still, I think there's a story in here somewhere--the question is, a short piece or a novel?