The Male Brain, EXPLAINED

Gals are always complaining about and wondering why guys don't notice things like their subtle hints, hair change, and why guys aren't as emotional as they.

Well, you gals can stop taking such things so personally, because recent studies show that such behavior is only NATURAL for the male gender.

The Male Brain, Explained.

I'll share some of the things from the article...

Be patient with his memory

The hippocampus, where initial memories are formed, occupies a smaller percent of the male brain than the female brain. If on your first date he can't remember where you work, even though you told him all about it when you met, just remember that size matters … hippocampus size, that is. Don't take it personally. (Oh, and don't be surprised when, months down the line, he has no clue you've just changed your hair.)

When it comes to memory, I'm sad to say that I fail in flying colors. And this explanation helps me feel a bit better about it, though I'm not using it as an excuse since I'm very forgetful about almost anything.

Don't expect his take on your relationship history to match yours

He may be incapable of seeing your shared past the way you do. Brain images have started to show that men and women use their brains in vastly different ways. For example, women use the left part of the amygdala — the part of the brain that creates emotional reactions to events — to put memories in order by emotional strength, meaning that something emotionally important to them (like a great first date a couple of months ago) will be ordered in front of what they ate for breakfast yesterday. Men, however, use the right part of the amygdala to put memories in order. Traditionally, the right hemisphere of the brain is associated with the central action of an event, while the left hemisphere is associated with finer details. Translation: You'll both remember your first date, but he might not remember the color of your sweater or the light rain that was falling that night. It doesn't mean he was checked out; it just means he's a guy.

I find this funny, because when I think back to a past event, I am usually able to do so because it's anchored down by the food I had. 8/10 times for me, if I recall a specific memory, I can remember in detail what I ate that day instead of the emotions I felt.

I think it's crap because I'm an extremely sensitive person and sometimes things stir my breast rightly so...my emotions have just as much of a bearing over my love of logic, it's just that nobody knows I cry sometimes.

Originally Posted by Discussion

I think it's crap because I'm an extremely sensitive person and sometimes things stir my breast rightly so...my emotions have just as much of a bearing over my love of logic, it's just that nobody knows I cry sometimes.

There's nothing crap about it. These scientific studies show tendencies, that doesn't mean that every male under the sun has to fit the bill.

well my b/f must have a hippocampus the size of a pea. he can't remember ANYTHING.

srsly, it gets annoying!!!

I'm insulted! I consider my Hippopotamus to be quite large

Originally Posted by Hazz

I'm insulted! I consider my Hippopotamus to be quite large

Oh shush Hazz, you're a monkey so your opinions have no credibility here. Go back to slotting shapes into boxes

Originally Posted by Fox McCloud

Oh shush Hazz, you're a monkey so your opinions have no credibility here. Go back to slotting shapes into boxes

FINE, MAYBE I WILL.

Originally Posted by Hazz

FINE, MAYBE I WILL.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD!

Originally Posted by Fox McCloud

MAYBE YOU SHOULD!

MAYBE I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW.

Originally Posted by Hazz

MAYBE I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW.

THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BOAST YOUR PEA SIZED HIPPOPOTAMUS!

Originally Posted by Fox McCloud

THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BOAST YOUR PEA SIZED HIPPOPOTAMUS!

MAYBE I WON'T

Originally Posted by Hazz

MAYBE I WON'T

MAYBE I'M GOING TO STOP WASTING MY TIME.

Just to break up this banter ( ), let me say that sometimes girls do understand what it is that makes guys tick, but complain about it just to complain.

There's something to be said about being able to vent.

Heh, I guess I don't have the typical male brain then.

Is there a similar study like this on the female brain? I should it would prove most useful to those (like me) who are continually confounded by females--despite the fact that they comprise 90-95% of all my friends.

That study doesn't take into account the Brains of the elite, like me.

I can't imagine getting mad at a guy because he can't remember the colour of the thread that fastened the button to the sweater I was wearing. but if he forgets the number of buttons on the thing than by GOD is he history. that dick needs to get his ducks in a line.

wait wait wait wait....guys have brains? since when?

I see that I identidy with a few tendencies mentioned but I by no means match what's there completely. Mostly who I am all depends on the time of day you catch me. I have some fairly opposite feelings about logic vs. emotions (and everything else) at different times. I've yet to reach a good assessment of the way I think in relation to the supposed male majority, mostly because once I've made a decision on that I change to the opposite shortly after.

Originally Posted by Zarah Warah

wait wait wait wait....guys have brains? since when?

Oh you're so funny. Good one.

(XD at Haz and Hazz.)

(...That is all.)

EDIT: anyone who thinks they can draw a conclusion on how people work from a paragraph of scientific information is... wrong, in my opinion. I feel people differ far too much to make any kind of generalization about how they think, feel and recall. >__<;