female sexual response
2006-06-16 17:09:47.474935+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Two gender stereotypes to get your morning started: Women's brains react surprisingly fast to erotic images. Using external electrodes (Hey, we can duplicate the experiment at home!), researchers found that:
Erotic images elicited neuron firing within 160 milliseconds—about 20 percent faster than occurred with any of the other pictures. The stimulation then branched out to different brain regions for erotic images compared to the others.
Interesting, 'cause it's been a little while since I've looked at that stuff, but I thought the frequency responses you'd be looking at with EEGs are slow enough that claiming "160ms" is pushing the believability of various signal processing techniques.
Second, New Scientist is reporting that PET scans of women during orgasm show remarkably low levels of brain activity. I got this from Elf who titled his post "Must. Not. Snark!", he got it from this post, which snarks.