The Eyes Have It: Men and Women Do See Things Differently, Study of Brain's Visual Centers Finds

[littlemissmartypants]

ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2012) — The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In the brain there are high concentrations of male sex hormone (androgen) receptors throughout cerebral cortex, especially in the visual cortex which is responsible for processing images. Androgens are also responsible for controlling the development of neurons in the visual cortex during embryogenesis, meaning that males have 25% more of these neurons than females.
Researchers from Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges of the City University of New York compared the vision of men and women aged over 16 from both college and high school, including students and staff. All volunteers were required to have normal color vision and 20/20 sight (or 20/20 when corrected by glasses or contact lenses).
When the volunteers were required to describe colors shown to them across the visual spectrum it became obvious that the color vision of men was shifted, and that they required a slightly longer wavelength to experience the same hue as the women. The males also had a broader range in the center of the spectrum where they were less able to discriminate between colors...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120903221050.htm

[longship]

1. Regretfully, the study still does not explain beer goggles.

Sorry, my friend. I watch the science forum fairly closely.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. .

[Johonny]

3. I seems like it does

Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli

Alcohol slows down the cerebral cortex as it works with information from a person's senses. Thus it slows down a mans sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli. Thus a slower moving stimuli without such fine detail begins to look appealing.

[sakabatou]

5. Mythbusters did something like that

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/beer-goggles-minimyth.htm

[Scuba]

4. I was thinking this might explain why my wife can't master fast-forward on the DVR ....

... but then I remembered that my daughter has no such problems.