Why Don t Boys Play with Dolls? - Lise Eliot

Description: Complete video at: fora.tv Dr. Lise Eliot explores the idea that boys are inherently attracted to play with "boy toys" such as trucks and action figures, while girls naturally gravitate toward dolls. She points out that both boys and girls are attracted to dolls at one year of age, suggesting that cultural reinforcements curb boys' interest in girls toys as they grow up. ----- Lise Eliot talks about Pink Brain, Blue Brain. Based on research in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot zeroes in on the precise differences between boys and girls' brains and explains the harmful nature of gender stereotypes. She offers parents and teachers concrete ways they can help all children reach their fullest potential. - Book Passage Dr. Lise Eliot, Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics from Columbia University in 1991. Working in Eric Kandel's laboratory, she combined electrophysiology and calcium imaging methods to analyze the synaptic mechanisms underlying learning in the marine mollusc, Aplysia californica. Dr. Eliot has published more than 50 works, including peer-reviewed journals articles, magazine pieces, and the book, What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam, 2000). Honors include a Magna cum laude bachelor's degree from Harvard, a predoctoral NSF fellowship, a postdoctoral NIH fellowship, a Grass Fellowship in