men process voices differently because of survival/self preservation instincts... men needed to assess another mans voice for it's threat level because women weren't dangerous until divorce lawyers came along. 8^)
Posted on 08/07/2005 8:45:12 AM PDT by Loyalist
LONDON (AFP) - 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.
Only God could have been so merciful as to give men such a natural gift.
....I guess that's just their nice way to say that us men can only make grunting and burping noises....
Does this explain why G-d is often represented as a male voice?
so you are a misogynist are you? Not planning to have any children? Note to Loyalist-- it takes 1man +1 woman to have a child. God arranged that also. St. Paul tells you to love your wife should you be so fortuante as to have one.
And who conducted this study and came up with this result, MEN?????
Now I have documentation to help get me off the hook.
Whether you can hear me say it or not, the "Not tonight, I've got a headache" edict stands until you finish those projects we talked about.
< /evil woman >
Scientist: "So our study shows that men find it more difficult to hear womens' voices than mens'"
Female reporter: "But how did you show that?"
Scientist: "What?"
Female reporter: "how did you show that?"
Scientist: "Sorry, can you speak up a bit please?"
Female reporter: "HOW DID YOU SHOW THAT?"
Scientist: "Yes"
Actually, after I felt that first surge of the fun hormone coursing through the vital parts, I always thought the voice of Sarah Vaughn was sort of fun to listen (to).
No. it's not that I can't hear her,
I just don't give a sh!t what she says.
This is news? Not to 98% of all women.
We have known since we were around the age of 5 that men have selective hearing.
Have you seen Jessica Simpson in those Daisy Duke Shorts? God's a man, dude...ipso facto, most definito!
I tried this on my wife and she is not buying it so far...
LOL! Most of us since the age of 2....
LOL. My wife says for the first 20 years of our marriage I never listened to her. Now for the next 20, she's not listening to me. It is kind of frustrating.
I'm sorry... did you say something?
Dan
Sheesh! I feel sorry for any men near you. Given your response, you sound like the kind of woman that produces misogynists. Take a deep breath. Lighten up.
men process voices differently because of survival/self preservation instincts... men needed to assess another mans voice for it's threat level because women weren't dangerous until divorce lawyers came along. 8^)
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