A new study challenges that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based similarities, many different types of brain can't always be distinguished by gender.

She was a distinguished graduate of Harvard School of Law.

She had not distinguished herself academically

He distinguished himself in low temperature physics.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b