Are Men's Brains Just Bigger?

The comparative anatomy of male and female brains is an incredibly popular topic. Fromteachers to cartoonists, everyone's interested in it. One supposed dude-dame dimorphism is the width of the corpus callosum, the white matter bridge that connects the brain's left and right hemispheres. Some studies suggest that women have a larger corpus callosum, relative to overall brain size, than men. This has led to a lot of speculation about how females, with their more 'interconnected' brains, are therefore better at things like multitasking: