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The beauty of diversity in cognitive neuroscience: The case of sex‐related effects in language production networks
Author(s) -
Marini Andrea
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
journal of neuroscience research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.72
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1097-4547
pISSN - 0360-4012
DOI - 10.1002/jnr.25096
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , language production , cognition , psychology , production (economics) , confounding , cognitive psychology , on language , cognitive science , developmental psychology , neuroscience , linguistics , sociology , medicine , pathology , anthropology , economics , macroeconomics , philosophy
Over the past few decades, several studies have focused on potential sex‐related differences in the trajectories of language development and functioning. From a behavioral point of view, the available literature shows controversial results: differences between males and females in language production tasks may not always be detectable and, even when they are, are potentially biased by sociological and educational confounding factors. The problem regarding potential sex‐related differences in language production has also been investigated at the neural level, again with controversial results. The current minireview focuses on studies assessing sex‐related differences in the neural networks of language production. After providing a theoretical framework of language production, it is shown that the few available investigations have provided mixed results. The major reasons for discrepant findings are discussed with theoretical and methodological implications for future studies.