Lucy read about research that males tend to use one side or the other of their brain for specific cerebral tasks more than females. She thinks this might make scientific sense because
a. men are more focused when they do something.
b. women use their right hemisphere for verbal processing and men have smaller right hemispheres compared to women.
c. the corpus callosum that connects the two hemispheres of the brain tends to be larger in females than males.
d. all of these apply.
C
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