posted August 09, 2005 01:15 PM         

Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.

The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine.

NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."

The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

posted August 10, 2005 09:44 AM         

I have learned recently, that when my husband and I talk he hears one thing and I said something totally different and thats not what I said at all. It's all in the preception of how one feels emotional and has been also programed to reserve what was said. Our programing, our past history of communation with others and family plays a big factor in how one my recieve another, so I found anyway.

I have been doing much work with this lately and I'm trying to come from a different place in my heart lately, to understand how he may be feeling and precieving my thoughts and feelings and not how I precieve it or meant it. Did that make any sense???

Really trying to walk in anothers shoes to get a differnt prospective and handle on this. Its coming from the heart and he is working on this also, to see it in a differnt light, so to say. Its bringing us so much close and communation skills are getting better. Learning how to truly receieve my other!!!

Love you guys!!!

Thanks for the great topic LibraSparkle, you hit home with my heart!!!

posted August 10, 2005 09:49 AM         

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Hmmm.So it should also be difficult for other women to listen to women, yet somehow when women chat they don't miss a word

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