Neural markers of a greater female responsiveness to social stimuli

There is fMRI evidence that women are neurally predisposed to process infant laughter and crying. Other findings show that women might be more empathic and sensitive than men to emotional facial expressions. However, no gender difference in the brain responses to persons and unanimated scenes has hitherto been demonstrated.Twenty-four men and women viewed 220 images portraying persons or landscapes and ERPs were recorded from 128 sites. In...