In the 1980s the belief was extended that the brains of men and women were the same and that education received from parents and the influence of society was what made the difference. Most psychologists nowadays think that this is not the case, that there are differences, even if they are few, between men and women who seem to be innate. You may have opinions about colors with males / females (depending on your gender) of your environment, what are women more colors than men? Is this one of the differences with which no longer?
Do women see more colors than men?
According to Dr. Israel Abramov, of the University of New York, in the field of the senses the differences between genders are perceptible. Women generally have more auditory and olfactory sensitivity than men, being able to distinguish and classify odors better than them. Continuing with these investigations, Abramov's team went into the field of vision to determine whether there were differences in this case and whether women actually see more colors than men.
Testosterone during gestation of the embryo is possibly the cause of this difference, since color vision is linked to a group of thalamic neurons that are in the primary visual cortex of the brain and whose development control androgens. Testosterone causes connections between men and women to vary. The final result of the study showed that, although there are differences in how the colors are seen from one individual to another, the population generally sees the colors in a very similar way. Despite this, there are small, but real differences between the two sexes.
Regarding the difference in vision between men and women, another group of researchers, this time from the University of Southern California, studied a group of 34 individuals to see how they focused and whether there were differences between the sexes. They concluded that they focus their attention on the mouth of the speaker and are distracted if they perceive any movement. Instead, women look into the eyes of their interlocutor and are also attentive to the body of the speaker. This would help women become more receptive to non-verbal communication. In the case of them, they are not distracted by movement, but rather enter into their field of vision another person, reinforcing the idea that the subconscious priorities between men and women are different.
