About This Lesson
It’s no surprise that men are more into video games than women, it’s science! Fumiko Hoeft, a researcher at Stanford University, conducted a study comparing men and women’s brain activity while playing a video game. Using an MRI scanner, Hoeft observed the participants as they played a game requiring them to keep balls from hitting a wall in the center of the computer. He found that while all participants showed activity in regions of the brain associated with reward and addiction, men’s brains showed considerably greater activity overall.
