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Gina Rippon


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Science


Gina Rippon is professor of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. Rippon has also sat on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Her book, Gendered Brain: the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, maintains biology plays no core role in differentiating female brains from male brains. As a watershed in the history of science, Rippon considers her findings comparable to "the idea of the Earth circling around the sun".

Rippon's research involves the application of brain imaging techniques, particularly electroencephalography,(EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) using cognitive neuroscience paradigms to studies of normal and abnormal cognitive process ...more

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“Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter.”
― Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
tags: feminism, neuroscience, stereotypes
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“Their invisible struggles with feeling other, their faces pressed against the window into a world to which they desperately wanted to belong.”
― Gina Rippon, Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
tags: autism, neurodivergence, neurodiversity
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“Many of the moments when my autism caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or woman should be, and failed to meet it. —Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism”
― Gina Rippon, Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
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