[TheForge] OT-Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

By mistake, the researchers tested mostly blacksmiths 
who skewed the results because they cannot hear their 
consorts consonants....PF

Rob Fertner wrote:
> Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse --
> women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's,
> a report said.
> 
> The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine
> 
> NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England
> discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male
> and female sounds.
> 
> Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that
> processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.
> 
> The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice
> is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the
> size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and
> also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.
> 
> "This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male
> voice."
> 
> The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations
> usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it
> much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false
> male voice.
> 
> Source:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainsciencehearing&printer=1;_ylt=Am9xnX4
> 2Zy3IGlTJak5ze5HQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
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