Gender & Sex

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Casey, B. M., & Ganley, C. M. (2021). An examination of gender differences in spatial skills and math attitudes in relation to mathematics success: A bio-psycho-social model. Developmental Review, 60, 100963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.100963

Delaney, J., & Devereux, P. J. (2021). Gender and educational achievement: Stylized facts and causal evidence. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3775979

Dion-Albert, L., Binder, L. B., Daigle, B., Hong-Minh, A., Lebel, M., & Menard, C. (2022). Sex differences in the blood–brain barrier: Implications for mental health. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 65, 100989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2022.100989

Eliot, L. (2021). Brain development and physical aggression: how a small gender difference grows into a violence problem. Current Anthropology, 62(S23), S66-S78. DOI: 10.1086/711705

Eliot, L., Ahmed, A., Khan, H., & Patel, J. (2021). Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.026

Fisher, A. D., Ristori, J., Morelli, G., & Maggi, M. (2018). The molecular mechanisms of sexual orientation and gender identity. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 467, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2017.08.008

Forsblom, L., Pekrun, R., Loderer, K., & Peixoto, F. (2021). Cognitive appraisals, achievement emotions, and students’ math achievement: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000671

Frigerio, A., Ballerini, L., & Hernández, M. V. (2021). Structural, functional, and metabolic brain differences as a function of gender identity or sexual orientation: A systematic review of the human neuroimaging literature. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9

Geary, D. C. (2022). Sex, mathematics, and the brain: An evolutionary perspective. Developmental Review, 63, 101010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.101010

Geary, D. C. (2022). Spatial ability as a distinct domain of human cognition: An evolutionary perspective. Intelligence, 90, 101616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101616

Green, C. S., & Newcombe, N. S. (2020). Cognitive training: How evidence, controversies, and challenges inform education policy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(1), 80-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732219870202

Griffin, L., Clyde, K., Byng, R., & Bewley, S. (2021). Sex, gender and gender identity: a re-evaluation of the evidence. British Journal Psychological Bulletin, 45(5), 291-299. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.73

Hausmann, M. (2021). Sex/gender differences in brain activity–it’s time for a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(3-4), 178-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1853087

Herts, J., & Levine, S. C. (2020). Gender and math development. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1186

Hines, M. (2020). Human gender development. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.018

Hines, M. (2020). Neuroscience and sex/gender: looking back and forward. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(1), 37-43. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0750-19.2019

Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R. S., Joel, D., Tate, C. C., & van Anders, S. M. (2019). The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary. American Psychologist, 74(2), 171. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000307

Jäncke, L. (2018). Sex/gender differences in cognition, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy. F1000Research, 7. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.13917.1

Joel, D., Garcia-Falgueras, A., & Swaab, D. (2020). The complex relationships between sex and the brain. The Neuroscientist, 26(2), 156-169. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858419867298

Joel, D. (2021). Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.018

Kersey, A. J., Csumitta, K. D., & Cantlon, J. F. (2019). Gender similarities in the brain during mathematics development. npj Science of Learning, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-019-0057-x

Llaveria Caselles, E. (2021). Epistemic injustice in brain studies of (trans) gender identity. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, 63. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.608328

Llorens, A., Tzovara, A., Bellier, L., Bhaya-Grossman, I., Bidet-Caulet, A., Chang, W. K., ... & Dronkers, N. F. (2021). Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions. Neuron, 109(13), 2047-2074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.002

Mohammadi, M. R., & Khaleghi, A. (2018). Transsexualism: A different viewpoint to brain changes. Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 16(2), 136. doi: 10.9758/cpn.2018.16.2.136

Moody, T. D., Feusner, J. D., Reggente, N., Vanhoecke, J., Holmberg, M., Manzouri, A., ... & Savic, I. (2021). Predicting outcomes of cross-sex hormone therapy in transgender individuals with gender incongruence based on pre-therapy resting-state brain connectivity. NeuroImage: Clinical, 29, 102517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102517

Mozahem, N. A., Boulad, F. M., & Ghanem, C. M. (2021). Secondary school students and self-efficacy in mathematics: Gender and age differences. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 9(sup1), S142-S152. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683603.2020.1763877

Nazareth, A., Huang, X., Voyer, D., & Newcombe, N. (2019). A meta-analysis of sex differences in human navigation skills. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(5), 1503-1528. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01633-6

Nebli, A., & Rekik, I. (2021). Adversarial brain multiplex prediction from a single brain network with application to gender fingerprinting. Medical Image Analysis, 67, 101843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2020.101843

Newcombe, N. S. (2020). The puzzle of spatial sex differences: Current status and prerequisites to solutions. Child Development Perspectives, 14(4), 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12389

Newcombe, N. S., Möhring, W., & Frick, A. (2018). How big is many? Development of spatial and numerical magnitude understanding. In Heterogeneity of function in numerical cognition (pp. 157-176). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811529-9.00009-1

Nguyen, H. B., Loughead, J., Lipner, E., Hantsoo, L., Kornfield, S. L., & Epperson, C. N. (2019). What has sex got to do with it? The role of hormones in the transgender brain. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(1), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0140-7

Nguyen, H. B., Chavez, A. M., Lipner, E., Hantsoo, L., Kornfield, S. L., Davies, R. D., & Epperson, C. N. (2018). Gender-affirming hormone use in transgender individuals: impact on behavioral health and cognition. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20(12), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0973-0

Özkarar-Gradwohl, F. G., & Turnbull, O. H. (2021). Gender effects in personality: a cross-cultural affective neuroscience perspective. Culture and Brain, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-021-00099-5

Rippon, G. A. (2021 Jan).  window of opportunity: a neuroscience perspective on the gender stereotyping of science in the early years. JES20 [website] https://www.ase.org.uk/system/files/Rippon.pdf

Ristori, J., Cocchetti, C., Romani, A., Mazzoli, F., Vignozzi, L., Maggi, M., & Fisher, A. D. (2020). Brain sex differences related to gender identity development: Genes or hormones? International journal of molecular sciences, 21(6), 2123. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21062123

Riva, D. (2021). Sex and gender difference in cognitive and behavioral studies in developmental age: An introduction. Journal of Neuroscience Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24970

Roselli, C. E. (2018). Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 30(7), e12562.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.12562

Saguy, T., Reifen-Tagar, M., & Joel, D. (2021). The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1822), 20200141. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0141

Şahin, Ö., & Yalcinkaya, N. S. (2021). The gendered brain: implications of exposure to neuroscience research for gender essentialist beliefs. Sex Roles, 84(9), 522-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01181-7

Subramaniapillai, S., Almey, A., Rajah, M. N., & Einstein, G. (2021). Sex and gender differences in cognitive and brain reserve: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease in women. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 60, 100879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2020.100879

Uribe, C., Junque, C., Gómez-Gil, E., Abos, A., Mueller, S. C., & Guillamon, A. (2020). Brain network interactions in transgender individuals with gender incongruence. Neuroimage, 211, 116613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116613

Verplaetse, T. L., Cosgrove, K. P., Tanabe, J., & McKee, S. A. (2021). Sex/gender differences in brain function and structure in alcohol use: A narrative review of neuroimaging findings over the last 10 years. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 99(1), 309-323. https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/jnr.24625.

Watanabe, H., Kojima, S., Nagasaka, K., Ohno, K., Sakurai, N., Kodama, N., ... & Onishi, H. (2021). Gray matter volume variability in young healthy adults: Influence of gender difference and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic factor genotype. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab370

Woodhill, B., & Samuels, C. (2021). Sex vs gender: A biological location for gender, not sex. DOI 10.33774/coe-2020-k7gt1-v4

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