The brain

Cerebral Cortex

1)What do the frontal lobes do?

Controls your personality, as well as helps individuals with problem solving, memory, language, judgment and impulse control.

2)What is the relationship between selective attention and learning?

They are the ability to pick up on and focus on the most important facts or details.

3)What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating?

The last part to develop is the frontal lobe and to prevent it from deteriorating is by keeping it active.

4)What does the neocortex do?

Helps guide through your body. Controls your senses,spatial awareness and motor skills.

5)What is the role of the prefrontal cortex?

This controls your personality and how you act in social situations.

6)What do we know about the prefrontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking?

Multitasking is not really a thing it is just the prefrontal cortex helps the brain jump between tasks quickly

7)Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development?  Give an interesting fact about this region.

The broca's area is responsible for speech and language development. It is associated with language.

8)Which part of your brain is responsible for thinking the following: “Is it hot in here or is it just me?”

Somatosensory cortex

9)What does your visual cortex do for you?

Distinguish colors and more complex images such as faces.

10)State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe.

It is your  brain’s visual processing center. It is the part that deals with imagination. Damage can result in blindness or a loss of image.

11)What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged?

Impaired memory, and speaking impairment.

12)What is your “fast brain” and what does it do?

It is the region that picks up information in a matter of milliseconds and it controls the eye movement.

Neuron

13)State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive effect on your life and health.

Exercise , a healthy diet and taking omega acids may affect synapses.

14)What is the relationship between multisensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites?

They are different between memorizing something and learning it.

15)How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning?

The big picture is said to be needed to fully comprehended a subject which uses dendrites.

16)Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very important.  Justify your reasoning.

Limbic System

17)What does the corpus callosum do?

Allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It transmits neural messages between the left and right of the brain.

18)What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum?

Musicians corpus callosum is generally bigger than nonmusicians. It is clear in the anterior and posterior parts of the corpus callosum. Music increases the plasticity at certain ages of development which is why it is so good for a young child to learn and play music. Bigger corpus callosum means an  increase in coordination  and differences in white matter structure.

19)Why is the thalamus important?

It is responsible for motor control and regulates your consciousness.

Relate and Review

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