[Jewelry making - Article 00720] - Re: [Orchid] Concentration and productivity

[H. D. (Del) Pearson]

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>     I wonder if the difference in male/female music preference has to
>     do with the allegedly greater communication in women between the
>     brain's hemispheres, as well as the female propensity toward
>     multitasking. 

Jessee.

    This is one of many areas in which I have a great deal of interest.
    (Psychology was one of the supporting fields in my doctoral
    studies.)  To begin with, it has been fairly well confirmed that
    memories must have "hooks."  Without a hook, the information is in
    the mind but cannot be recalled.  It is kind of like when you "erase"
    a file from a computer disk--the file is still there, but the name
    (hook) is removed from the directory so you can no longer access it. 
    Hooks are any sensory events that accompany the memory.  And of all
    the hooks, smell seems to be the most powerful.  This is posited as
    the reason we usually cannot remember events from our infancy--at the
    time of the event our mind had not yet stored up enough sensory
    information to establish the needed hooks. 

    The greater communication between the hemispheres of the brain in
    the female has a physiological basis.  I recently heard--but have not
    checked it out--that the reason may be that all of we men are "brain
    damaged."  The theory is that in males large amounts of testosterone
    are released during one of the fetal  stages and the testosterone
    destroys the linkage between the hemispheres. 

    As to concentration, men and women were designed to fulfill
    different roles in society.  Men are made for providing food.  Total
    concentration upon the task at hand is crucial to successful hunting.
     Women are made to fulfill just about every other need for a tribe or
    family.  Since women have so many responsibilities, they must be able
    to multitask. 

    These different roles do not necessarily pertain to our twenty-first
    century society, but they do explain why men and women think
    differently, why women have intuition, and why more males than
    females have attention deficit disorder. 

    Trying to stay out of trouble, let me make the disclaimer that the
    gender-linked differences are not absolutes. 

    Del Pearson in Beautiful South Texas where the mocking birds sing
    all night.

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