Brains Vary in Assimilating Information

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There are many debates about how children’s brains assimilate information in different ways. Studies show that there are various reactions about the brain being part of the varying reason for the different ways of assimilating information. Some children’s brains, regardless of gender, are larger than others resulting in the assimilation of information being easier for them. Young children can also learn on different levels only due to what they have been taught by their parents. This can increase or decrease their retention rates without having anything to do with their brains being different. Girls and boys are meant to be different because their gender provides feminine and masculine formations. As many children are on different levels of information assimilation, studies have shown that it is due to the difference in their brain structure. Many studies have been completed to show that the size of the brain, Social cognition, corpus callosum, and hypothalamus all have a large difference in development when comparing them between girls and boys.
The size of a child’s brain begins well before birth. Around the sixth week of pregnancy, an embryo’s brain is able to move in reaction to stimuli. By the eighth week the brain connects with the rest of the body. After the neurons are in their final place they began to develop connections to other neurons which is called synapses. During the fetal stage between 13 and 21 weeks, the neurons are set in place. At birth, the brain of girls and boys are different sizes. The lower part of the brain is called the hippocampus. Acting as a storage chest for memory, girls generally remember what they learned better than boys (Your brain and nervous system, 2013, P.2).
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...nformation. To develop the higher areas of the brain, children must be able to experience things for themselves and feel the sense of accomplishment that goes along with completing tasks independently.
Many studies have been conducted to study classrooms at several schools to find out the differences in how children learn. They have found that boys are better at math and science, and girls are better at showing emotion and literature. These studies also explored separate class rooms for boys and girls. Cambridge University completed a four year study of 50 schools and they concluded that students that “single sex classrooms did better than coed classrooms” (Sax, 2012, P.4).

Works Cited

Eliot, L. ((2009, September 08)2009, September 08). Girl brain, boy brain? Scientific American.
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