Originally Posted by Giftodd
This book backs up part of Bostonian's post, which is that it appears women generally use both hemispheres in their thinking processes whereas men's brains are more lateralised.

Again, it goes back to environment.

The most productive intellectual of the last 100 years was John Von Neumann. I read his biography and he had a very interesting way of seeing and thinking about the world - he saw things in his mind with a combination of color, sounds, and pressure - in other words - his entire brain was in the act. Feynman also saw the world in this way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann