CZ:Ref:DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhl066

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Sowell ER, Peterson BS, Kan E, Woods RP, Yoshii J, Bansal R et al. (2007). "Sex differences in cortical thickness mapped in 176 healthy individuals between 7 and 87 years of age". Cereb Cortex 17 (7): 1550-60. DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhl066. PMID 16945978. PMC PMC2329809. Research Blogging[e]

Demonstrates that cortical thickness, while overall similar in both sexes in humans, has significantly greater values in women than in men for temporoparietal regions. The effect is age-independent for adults.