Cerebral Cortex
1. What do the frontal lobes do?
The frontal lobes are our "central command center." It is in charge of personality, problem solving, memory, language, judgement, and impulse control. In charge of execution.
2. What is the relationship between selective attention and learning?
Selective attention is when intelligence levels depend on how selective an individual is with processing certain information. Selective attention IMPROVES learning because selective attention helps compartmentalize information and speed up the understanding process.
3. What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating?
The frontal lobe develops last. To prevent deterioration of this part of the brain, try and actively engage with whatever it is that you do. Switch up the way you study at times (the location, the type of studying, the number of people you're studying with, etc.)
4. What does the neo cortex do?
The neocortex is in charge of navigation, spatial awareness, and motor function. It controls senses.
5. What is the role of the pre frontal cortex?
The prefrontal cortex is responsible for controlling personality (especially in social scenarios). It helps organize thoughts and actions.
6. What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking?
Multitasking is not possible as you are not able to do more than two things at once.
7. Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development? Give an interesting fact about this region.
Broca's area is responsible for speech and language development. Those who learn 2 languages from birth onwards have one Broca's area, while those who learn 2 languages later in life have 2 Broca's areas: one for each language.
8. Which part of your brain is responsible for thinking the following: “Is it hot in here or is it just me?”
The somatosensory cortex.
The somatosensory cortex.
9. What does your visual cortex do for you?
The visual cortex is responsible for helping distinguish between colors and complex objects.
10. State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe.
Injury to this region can cause hallucinations. The occipital lobe doesn't only deal with real images, but imagination and dreams as well. It is useful for differentiating between imagination and reality.
11. What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged?
You would have trouble recognizing words, you may not be able to speak, and your memory will be impaired.
12. What is your “fast brain” and what does it do?
The eye fields. It helps the brain register things really fast.
Neuron
13. State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive affect on your life and health.
Not using drugs which mess up hormone and ion balances in brains, exercise, sleeping enough.
14. What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites?
It helps with memory of a subject; the more dendrites in the area, the stronger the memory retention.
15. How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning?
Mnemonics helps us associate one unknown concept with a concept which we do know. This helps us with remembering the definition of the previously unknown concept.
16. Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very important. Justify your reasoning.
Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter because it helps us to remain positive and gives us our character. It is important because it makes us who we are.
Limbic System
17. What does the corpus callosum do?
The corpus callosum connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum.
18. What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum?
Music study increases the flow of information through the corpus callosum.
19. Why is the thalamus important?
The thalamus is responsible for relaying motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex. It is sort of like the gateway to the main brain from the brainstem and spinal cord.
The thalamus is responsible for relaying motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex. It is sort of like the gateway to the main brain from the brainstem and spinal cord.
Relate and Review
Summarize what you learned from this tutorial. Relate what you learned to your everyday life and how you can make it better. Use at least 5 of the bolded words from the questions. 5-sentence minimum. You may use the back of this if needed.
This helped to clarify the different functions and locations of the different parts of the brain. I did not know about the limbic system and this website helped to clarify about it. The 3D model helped me to spatially understand the location of different parts of the brain, just like the sheep brain dissection did. I also was refreshed on how the dendrites and synapses help us with signaling and memory processing. I was also really interested in Broca's area and how it can duplicate based on the number of languages learned.
This helped to clarify the different functions and locations of the different parts of the brain. I did not know about the limbic system and this website helped to clarify about it. The 3D model helped me to spatially understand the location of different parts of the brain, just like the sheep brain dissection did. I also was refreshed on how the dendrites and synapses help us with signaling and memory processing. I was also really interested in Broca's area and how it can duplicate based on the number of languages learned.
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