Unser Gehirn

Mein erstes Buch im Juli führt mich in Neurowissenschaften, genauer gesagt ins menschliche Gehirn. Ich habe bisher schon die Hälfte gelesen und bin fasziniert, aber auch ein bisschen erschreckt. Es wird immer noch zwischen Männern und Frauen und deren Gehirnleistung unterschieden, was dieses Buch abschaffen möchte und sehr gut erklärt.

 

Mein derzeitiges Buch:

Gina RIPPON
The Gendered Brain

The New Neuroscience that Shatters

the Myth of the Female Brain

Description: Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question?

 

Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your sex determines your skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our Brains?

 

Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains. Taking us back through centuries of sexism, The Gendered Brain reveals how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions. Instead of challenging the status quo, we are still bound by outdated stereotypes and assumptions. However, by exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of our brains and instead to see these complex organs as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential.

 

Rigorous, timely and liberating, The Gendered Brain has huge repercussions for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.