Honey, are you listening to me?

So are you a woman who is frustrated that your man simply not paying attention when you are talking to him. While he might often find watching television (particularly if it has sports news or sexy women or beer commercials on) more entertaining than you, he might now have another excuse - his brain. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in the UK have explained the differences in the way the male brain interprets male and female voices, explaining why people who hallucinate and hear false voices almost always hear a man.

"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 women and men, 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," says Dr Michael Hunter, of Professor Peter Woodruff´s group in the Department of Psychiatry and Division of Genomic Medicine.

So, while it is important for couples to have great communication and both should work at it, women also may need to learn to be more patient when the man ignores what she is saying.

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