Posted on 07/13/2011 9:43:33 AM PDT by freespirited
If you've ever spent time telling a guy a story or asking him a question, only to get a blank stare in response, then you know that there's definitely truth to this claim that guys weren't designed to hear us speak. I had a similar experience at brunch this weekend when I was going on and on to a male friend about something I can't even remember anymore. When I got to the end of my rant and finally asked him if he agreed with me on the topic at hand, his answer was, "sorry, I really wasn't listening to a word you said."
Even though I was incredibly frustrated with him, he did bring up a good point, asking, "would you rather I lie and say I heard you?" This little exchange, as insignificant as it was, did make me wonder exactly what it is that makes it so easy for men to tune us out.
As it turns out, a study published in the journal NeuroImage sought to answer the very same question. Researchers found that there are major differences in the way male and female brains process voice sounds. Different brain regions are activated in men, depending on whether they're hearing a male or female voice.
Apparently, the vibration and number of sound waves in our voice makes it harder for men to decipher what we're saying. When it comes to processing a woman's voice, they use the more complex auditory part of the brain that processes music, not human voices. But the guys in the study could easily hear and understand other men’s voices as speech because that uses a simpler brain mechanism at the back of the brain.
So, next time you want to get angry and yell at a guy for "not listening," cut him a little slack – his brain just wasn't made to hear you. My suggestion would be to speak slowly and get to your point fast.
Pink noise.
ping
Who wants to talk to men anyway??
Ha! So there!
Congrats to you! We will be 25 this August! You sound like a good husband!
The rare times I watched FoxNews during their CaseyAnthonyathon, I would wince whenever I heard that Jeanine Lady Judge’s voice.
My husband says it isn’t his brain, it is his ears.
As my wife has discovered, when she is topless I will listen to her every word. We have a pool compound in our back yard, and I recently discovered my neighbor can hear her all the way from his bathroom window, even with it closed!
B.S.
Airplane cockpit voice warning systems emply afemale voice by default (presuming a male pilot/crew) because in tense, information rich, multi-threading situations ...
a man hears the FEMALE voice better, cognitively.
PULL UP! TERRAIN TERRAIN TERRAIN!
“Yes Dear” is the right response.
But...
“Yesterday I was having lunch with Sherry, yo know she’s the one who has the three kids in swimming over at the shopping center where the goat was fouend a’flsdd sjlkn jknc s;lcjs;jklnslnjn ............”
Does not RETAIN attention, because it is quickly processed as irrelevant.
Attention fades because content did not generate INTEREST.
It’s not that men don’t listen, it’s that women presume they can communicate on their terms and have a man pay rapt attention.
Probably something you really can’t afford to buy.
Don’t ~ever~ think we don’t know about this “loophole”....:)
I just printed the article and put it up on my office bulletin board—we have nine women and three men working here. LOL!
Actually, the article is a bit insulting to men.
I just printed the article and put it up on my office bulletin board—we have nine women and three men working here. LOL!
Actually, the article is a bit insulting to men.
Isn’t Nature wonderful? It provides a built-in defense against insanity. As I recall, females use 3 words for every 1 used by a male. TOO MUCH INPUT!
My grandmother had six sisters. During the holidays they would gather in the living room to chat. I would come in and quietly sit on the floor watching and listening. Many times all seven of them would be talking at the same time. That always blew me away. Great entertainment but I dared not laugh.
But a deftly wielded riding crop keeps them completely focused.
The writer couldn’t even recall what she was rambling about. Why should anyone else pay attention? I think it has more to do with the content of the message than the sex of the speaker. A vigorous speech from Sarah Palin would be more worthy of attention than another line of drivel from Obama or Harry Reid.
I actually have fun with it. If you want to see the back of their heads, just start talking about anything uninteresting. Clears the room every time. Oh, and a cooler of beer on the patio helps too. I also put an HD TV out there. You get my drift ;D!
I stopped right there. She can't remember something she was going on and on about?
I started out to read the article, but like trying to listen, my brain was not designed to continue even though it was written and not spoken by a woman.
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