Roslyn Holly Fitch (1995) From Behavior to Hormones to Axons, a big Leap . Psycoloquy: 6(43) Sex Brain (9)
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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.

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