a 2012 review published in the journal "neuropsychologia" found that women are better at recognizing facial effects, expression processing and emotions in general. men were only better at recognizing specific behaviour which includes anger, aggression and threatening cues. a 2012 study published in the journal "neuropsychology" with a sample of 3500 individuals from ages 8–21, found that females outperformed males on face memory and all social cognition tests. another 2014 study published in the journal "cerebral cortex" found that females had larger activity in the right temporal cortex, an essential core of the social brain connected to perception and understanding the social behaviour of others such as intentions, emotions, and expectations.