Uri Fidelman (1995) Cerebral Hemispheres, sex and Piaget Stages
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Psycoloquy 6(31): Cerebral Hemispheres, sex and Piaget Stages
CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES, SEX AND PIAGET STAGES
Commentary on Fitch & Denenberg on Sex-Brain
Uri Fidelman
Department of General Studies
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
ttrurif@technion.technion.ac.il
Abstract
Preliminary experimental findings suggest that a
change of Piaget stage may be related to different developmental
processes in boys and girls. At a somewhat later stage, the
collaboration between the hemispheres increases.
Keywords
corpus callosum, development, estrogen, feminization,
ovaries, sensitive period.
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