NOT INFERIOR

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4472, 1 July 1930, Page 1

NOT INFERIOR

BRAIN OtF WOMAN’. As tilt! result of: a special study comparing the bruins of twenty men and twenty women, selected from (lie more intellectual types, Dr. James W. Papez, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Oorne.lV University, lias eoneluded “Hint there is nothing in the outer organisation of the female brain which would make it different from or inferior to that of the male and that, given the same opportunities and incentives, the intellectual attainments of woman need not be inferior to those of man.”

Dr. Papez, who is curator of the Wilder brain collection at Cornell, in which are the brains of many notable men and women, including that of Helen Gardener, the suftraflst has been carrying on investigations in his laboratory for many years. The results of his recent study are based upon measurements.

He reported that the male brain averaged about 7 per cent, heavier than the female, and that it was frequently larger, but stated that this was due largely to women being smaller in stature and physical development. On this point he said: ,

“In spite of the faei that the brain of women weighs less than that of man one cannot construe this difference as due to the inferior development of the brain in the female. Rather it is to he regarded as a difference linking up with the sex differentiations of the woman.”

As for the frontal lobe, long considered the thinking part of the brain, Dr. Papez said: it was thought that the important frontal lobe was larger proportionately in men, hut careful examination does not hear this out.” His study indicated that there was no significant difference in the relative sizes of the frontal lobes of men and women, cVen though the speech area and the motor gyrus were often larger in the male. The occipital region of the brain, devoted chiefly to the functions of vision, appeared' to be relatively better developed in the female brain, Dr. Papez said, but lie added that it was hard to say whether this condition represented an actual superiority because of the larger size of the adjacent precuneal areas in the male tending to reduce the size of the occipital region. In the lower lobule, just above the ear, where the sensory functions of the hand have their seat, Dr. Papez reported a greater relative size, and upward extent in the female brain.

In the upper lobule, the centre of sensation in the lower limbs, he said his measurements showed -a greater value in the male.

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