Men’s and women’s brains may adopt different approaches to fostering memories of emotional experiences, according to a report in the January Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
The amygdala, an almond-shape structure found on each side of the inner brain, appears to handle emotionally charged memories exclusively in the right brain side for men and solely in the left brain side for women, says a team of neuroscientists led by Larry Cahill of the University of California, Irvine.
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