The History of the Myth "The Gendered Brain" with Gina Rippon

Gina Rippon wants to debunk the gendered brain myth. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it. Gina was the Head of Neuroimaging at Aston University Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience where she spent her days studying brain imaging to reach some groundbreaking conclusions. On today's Braincare Podcast, Gina Rippon takes us on a whistlestop tour of the gendered brain myth, from the skewed metrics and willful ignorance of early neuroscientists, through Darwin's cognitive dissonance, right up to the neurosexist misconceptions that still impact science today.
We talk about:

• What is the gendered brain myth?
• Rewriting evolution: even Darwin was susceptible to a little cognitive dissonance
• Do male and female brains actually differ?
• How did gender discrimination cloud neuro-scientific discovery
• Neuro-trash and neuro-sexism
• How 21st Century neuroscience debunks the gendered brain myth