Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find Sat Aug 6, 7:29 PM ET



Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.

The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine

NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."

The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

my ex accused me of tuning her out and having selective hearing constantly,funny thing is it was true,she was a cunt...

I remember reading that last week in the paper. It was the Dail Mail too and had a Fawlty Towers picture next to it.

i get it all the time- blam me mam anf the nt ni the wanna go back to your house?
but its all science

there is a simple trick to getting a man to listen to a woman, a soft lower sexy voice will usually gets someones attention and keep it. Nobody wants to hear a squeaky high picthed squeal.... thats why so many of us get tuned out as well...lol