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Scientist: Men do have trouble hearing women
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-08 09:26 Men who are accused of never listening by women
now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to
than other men's, a report said.
An Indian couple sits on the promenade in
Mumbai. Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse
-- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other
men's, a report said. [AFP] | The Daily Mail,
quoting findings published in the specialist magazine.
NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England
discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and
female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that
processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.
The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is
actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and
shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women
having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.
"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."
The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually
hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to
conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.
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