Catherine Vidal

[2] She authored popular science books on the ethical issues of neuroscience, determinism in biology, neuroplasticity, brain sex and gender.

She suggests that rather than just genetics, the differences in the skills and behaviour of men and women are the products of a cultural environment and social construction related to gender which influences brain development because of neuroplasticity.

[4][5] Lauren Bastide wrote a biographic radio broadcast of her on Les Savantes, on France Inter on July 15 2017.

[6] In the journal L'Obs in 2014, the biologist Jacques Balthazart criticised the theories of Catherine Vidal, not questioning neuroplasticity but expressing the opinion that biology plays a significant role in the differentiation of male and female behavior as well as in sexual orientation and gender identity.

[7] In 2014, researchers Franck Ramus and Nicolas Gauvrit published in the journal Science et pseudo-sciences an article entitled La 'Méthode Vidal',[8] in which they express the opinion that "the synthesis that Catherine Vidal makes of it is extremely biased, incomplete, and that the arguments it uses do not support its conclusions."