Beautiful Minds A Little Matter of Gender 5/5

Synopsis
An investigation into the differences between male and female brains, using the mysterious savants as a key area of study.

The differences between male and female brains have plagued scientists for centuries but with new brain scanning technologies, they can now examine exactly what goes on inside our heads.

Of particular interest are savants; a small but highly intelligent group of people who can multiply 5-digit numbers without a calculator, speak a dozen languages or recite 12,000 books from memory.

Six out of seven savants are male, begging the question: how big is this little difference between male and female brains? Could gender be the key to the savant's capacity for genius?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Beautiful
• Minds
• Little
• Matter
• of
• Gender
• genius
• savants
• neurology
• science
• kim
• peek
• daniel
• tammet

[Vaynesti]

thank you for posting these very interesting documentaries!

[holywaterx]

thank you for posting these amazing documentaries, very interesting! Good luck with your studies :)

[xilliah]

@ajmy11 Woaw thanks mate!

[SIMKINETICS]

Simon Baron-Cohen, Borat's cousin.

[ajmy11]

@xilliah The song from the background is Boozoo Bajou - Down & Out (Satta!)

You can listen it on YouTube :)

It took over an hour to find it!

[ArnoldVinette]

Very interesting series on why some autistic people are savants. In just a few short years many years of research and observations are now beginning to yield how the brain works. When some skill sets are disabled it allows others to really expand. And knowing that we all have this potential is very interesting. Seeing the skills of the savant artist, savant muscian, and savant sculpture are really something. Without a doubt more interesting findings are on the way.

[imuhstarr]

wild

[xilliah]

Great music, anyone know what it is?

[mozart20dlubos]

Wow she looks like a man..

[RocknCorruptrepublic]

thank you for posting these! cool stuff. Wouldn't it be dangerous if we were able to read people's minds by hooking them up to a computer? haha. Better than lie detection I guess :) but some things are meant to stay in one's mind lol.

I may have mild Asperger's and if you search online you can find tests that measure empathizing and systemizing. I took ones called the EQ and SQ tests and you can score from extreme on each end, to balanced in between. I scored as an extreme systemizer.

[angus506]

guy at the very end is a fag

[Digifier]

Why can't they use subtitles ? It's really hard to listen to two languages at the same time.