Why do girls perform better than boys in terms of language expression? Think about the usual time, we are at home, the most listened to is the mother constantly nagging, compared with the mother, the father talks like gold. Because girls speak more logically, their expression will be more fluent. The reason for this is mainly because there is a gender difference in brain development, and it is the existence of this difference that makes the thinking of the girl's brain more flexible in language.
In daily life, we will find that most of the time girls talk more together than boys, and even so, when there is a small dispute or debate between each other, girls are often able to more easily express their views and gain the upper hand. It seems that girls are born with an advantage over boys in language.
Why is this happening?
Is this innate?
In fact, this is really related to congenital factors, mainly depending on the differences in brain development between boys and girls:
01 The difference between left and right brain development
The functions of the two hemispheres of the brain are not the same. The left hemisphere is responsible for abstract thinking, mathematical operations, and logical operations; the right hemisphere is responsible for fantasy, perception, music, and art appreciation. Boys in the left hemisphere of the brain specialize in language skills, and have an innate advantage over girls. When thinking about abstract questions, men seem to use only the right half of the brain, while women use both sides of the brain; the right brain is responsible for emotion, and the left brain is responsible for language. Girls have larger corpus callosums than boys and can better connect the left and right brains, so girls are better at expressing emotions in language. This physiologically determines the difference in the thinking habits of men and women.
From a physiological point of view, girls develop more quickly in the left hemisphere of the brain than in boys. Girls are blessed with a unique ability to memorize and imitate language. They have strong oral and written language skills, and are good at using language to express their rich thoughts and feelings, and they have more advantages than boys in language acceptance and language comprehension.
02 The development of the temporal lobe and brain beam of the brain is different
The temporal lobe, located below the lateral fissure of the brain, has the function of managing language abilities. The temporal lobe in the girl's brain is larger than that of the boy, this is because the boy communicates relatively little in the usual language, while the woman likes to often carry out language activities such as coordinating thoughts, and the long-term language habit makes the temporal lobe of the girl in charge of language ability more developed than the temporal lobe of the male.
Brain beams are also another factor that differs in the brains of boys and girls. The brain beam is a bundle of 200 million nerve fibers located in the middle of the brain, which is an important connection between the two cerebral hemispheres of the left and right brains, transmitting information about the occurrence of the left and right brains to each other. Studies have found that girls' brain beams are thicker than boys', and the communication of information between the left and right brains of girls is more active than that of boys.
Because of this, girls use not only the left brain, which is in charge of language skills, but also the right brain when speaking. Conversely, boys with relatively weak connections to the brain beams use only the left brain when speaking. So girls are able to use richer languages than boys and express their ideas better.
Studies have shown that women speak an average of 20,000 words a day, 13,000 more words than men; girls generally learn to speak before boys; and girls of the same age have better language skills than boys. Because of this, when we were at home, when we found that our parents quarreled, it was always the reason why our mother had the upper hand.
03 The brain thinks differently
We know that boys' thinking has the characteristics of broadness, flexibility and creativity, and focuses on logical thinking, so boys tend to prefer mathematics, programming, philosophy and other disciplines. Boys prefer to study things, and due to the lack of more opportunities to talk to people, they become less verbal over time. Women are more psychologically sensitive and accustomed to image thinking, so girls generally prefer English, literature, art and other subjects, and are more likely to make achievements. Girls, on the other hand, pay more attention to details, are more meticulous in their studies and lives, and often talk to their peers about what they have seen and heard in life. From this, the status quo of girls being able to speak more than boys has been formed. This is why most boys choose science, while girls prefer liberal arts.
Knowing the differences in these areas, you will also know why girls are more able to speak than boys. As wise parents, we should develop the child's brain thinking in a targeted manner, whether it is to learn from each other's strengths or to give full play to the advantages, and to be able to take corresponding methods according to the different brain thinking of boys and girls, so that it will be more effective with half the effort.