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For centuries, brain research has focussed on finding evidence of the difference between women’s and men’s brains. But we now have a much better idea of how the brain is shaped by the world we live in, and at Â鶹´«Ã½ Live next month, will reveal how gendered brains are produced not by a fixed biological blueprint, but by living in a gendered world.

Rippon is an honorary professor of cognitive neuroimaging at Aston University, UK. In her book The Gendered Brain, she offers a 21st century model for better understanding how brains develop to be different from one another.

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