You Never Listen to Me

Next time your wife or girlfriend says "you never listen to me." You now have an excuse.

"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 magazineNeuroImage, 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."

Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find - Yahoo! News