How many times has it happened to you to observe a couple
in which the woman is talking while the man seems to have a lost air,
as if it were disconnected from the surrounding world? We know well that some men
they seem to have the ability to disconnect when women's speech
it gets long and boring. Many will believe that this is due to the boredom that
generates the discourse itself, and in part it is so, but it is certain that the roots of
this male behavior are much more complex and are located in the
brain.
When people have verbal auditory hallucinations
the voices they perceive are attributed to a specific gender: women's voices or
of men, even if they are usually male voices. This fact that can
seem completely normal may actually indicate that there are several
areas of the brain responsible for processing male or female voices. How much
is this idea certain? Until recently it was just a hypothesis,
but now, thanks to the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging, it has been possible
prove it's true. At the University of Sheffield in the UK it is
carried out a study that involved monitoring brain activity
of twelve men as they listened to female, male and ambiguous voices. The results? The female voice activates areas of the
brain which are normally in charge of processing complex sounds such as
music, while the male voice activates the historically dedicated region
imagination.These differences may be caused by the fact
that women normally have smaller vocal cords and larynx than
they allow you to produce a more melodic and different voice. At the same time, the
female speech possesses greater prosody, which is why men
they say that “it is more difficult to listen and
understand the female voice. ”However, due to these same peculiarities of the
female voice, it is claimed that this is capable of transmitting more information
which is why most of the announcements made in public are
uttered by women. This theory would also explain why the majority
of auditory verbal hallucinations belong to male voices, since if
the brain has to imagine a voice it is very likely to choose the one most
simple, the basic version: the male voice.
