While she’s talking to her girlfriend on the phone, she can simultaneously change the baby’s diaper, make coffee and effortlessly do a samba on the dance floor with a broomstick. If he’s sitting in front of the TV, the most he can do is tap his foot to the beat. The sentence “Honey, please take out the garbage!” bounces off him without reaction. He never really listens. His brain just manages one thing at a time.
“Multi-tasking”
Women, on the other hand, can do several things at once because there are many more connecting fibers between the two halves of their brains. That’s why women can talk and listen at the same time. This is also the reason why women are often called “chatterboxes” or “gossips,” since the male need to communicate is significantly reduced; men tend to be more mouthy.
One thesis: a woman talks to maintain relationships. Men speak to convey facts. Another possible reason: it is possible that men are more likely to focus on the essence of the message, while women are more imaginative when listening.
Scientifically proven
When men listen, only one hemisphere of the brain is active. Their speech center is limited to the left, rational hemisphere of the brain – the half responsible for logic. Only there is the information heard processed. This is what researchers at Indiana University in Chicago found out.
When women speak, the right, emotional hemisphere of the brain is also active. In addition, U.S. studies have shown that women utter about twice as many words per day as men. Women speak about 23,000 words a day, men only about half that.
But there is a specific reason for the silence at the end of the day: when a man puts his feet up after a stressful day at work and uses his right brain to process the day, his left brain, which he would need to listen and talk, temporarily stops operating.
