| Which hemisphere is more dominant in women and why? | Left hemisphere, which controls language functions which explain why women are better at languages than men |
| What hemisphere is more dominant in men and why? | Right hemisphere, this controls spatial awareness, this explains why men are better at spatial awareness skills |
| Why are women better at tasks that include both hemispheres? | They have a thicker corpus callosum which allows for better communication between the 2 hemispheres |
| Who did better in the mental rotation test? | Women did just as well as men in this test, this was found by Rilea et al. 2005 |
| Who did better in the water level test? | Men did better than women in the water level test, this was found by Rilea etl al. 2005 |
| What is the Broca's area? | It is located in the left side of the frontal lobe and it is associated with language function |
| What did Harasty el al (1997) find about the Broca's area? | It was predominantly larger in women which explains why women are usually better than men at languages. |
| Strength of the differences in lateralisation? | It it supported by studies of brain structures, for example with Harasty el al study, they saw that the Broca's area is predominantly larger in women |
| How does Harasty support the difference in lateralisation? | Supports the idea that women are better than men at languages because they left hemisphere is more dominant |
| Another support evidence of the differences in lateralisation? | Rilea found that men did better at the water task than women which supports the idea that men are better than women at spatial awareness task which shows that they are right hemisphere dominant. |
| What is a non conclusive research of the difference in lateralisation ? | The other Rilea experiment shows that women are just as good as men in the mental rotation task. This shows that women can perform certain spatial awareness task just as well as men. This challenges the idea that there are sex differences in the right hemisphere. |
