Roslyn Holly Fitch (1995) From Behavior to Hormones to Axons, a big Leap
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Psycoloquy 6(43): From Behavior to Hormones to Axons, a big Leap
FROM BEHAVIOR TO HORMONES TO AXONS, A BIG LEAP
Reply to Fidelman on Sex-Brain
Roslyn Holly Fitch
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University
197 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
Victor H. Denenberg
Biobehavioral Sciences Graduate Degree Program
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4154
holly@axon.rutgers.edu
dberg@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Abstract
Fidelman (1995) proposes that developmental gender
differences in performance on specific behavioral tasks may reflect
developmental hormone effects on callosal connectivity patterns. We
question whether the data presented support this leap.
Keywords
corpus callosum, development, estrogen, feminization,
ovaries, sensitive period.
References
- Fidelman, U. (1995) Cerebral Hemispheres, Sex and Piaget Stages. PSYCOLOQUY 6(31) sex-brain.6.fidelman.
- Fitch, R.H. & Denenberg, V. (1995) A Role For Ovarian Hormones In Sexual Differentiation of the Brain. PSYCOLOQUY 6(5) sex-brain.1.fitch.