Brain Map

Brain Info

Cerebral Cortex

1.     What do the frontal lobes do? controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behavior.

2.     What is the relationship between selective attention and learning? Selective Attention makes your working capacity memory greater as it allows you to priotize important and used information rather than unimportant information. 

3.     What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating? Your frontal lobe is the last part of the brain to develop and you can not zone out and not trying to memorize everything will help prevent it from deteriorating . 

4.     What does the neo cortex do? It is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language.

5.     What is the role of the pre frontal cortex?  This part of your brain controls your personality such as social situations and your thoughts and actions. 

6.     What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking? Multitasking is commonly shown to impair cognitive performance, as each switch results in a reduction in performance compared to doing one task at a time. However, there is growing evidence that the ability to multitask can be trained with repetitive and adaptive practice. Multitasking abilities have been observed to decline as we age. 

7.     Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development?  Give an interesting fact about this region. Brocas Area is associated with speech and language development. Fun Fact is tongue twisters will help this part of the brain get better at speech 

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

9.     What does your visual cortex do for you?

10. State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe. 1) This allows you to process short or long term memories. 2) Studies have shown that you engage your occipital lobes by using your imagination to visualize yourself performing that activity and it has shown that you will do better. 3) This part of the lobe collects and categorizes all the visual data you see. 

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11. What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged? If your temporal lobes were damaged you would loose memory. 

12. What is your “fast brain” and what does it do? .... couldn't find the answer to this question, but I'm guessing it processes things quick in the brain and is used for quick thinking. 

Neuron

13. State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive affect on your life and health.  1) Socializing 2) Exercise and eating healthy 3) Eating Omega fatty acids such as salmon can help improve the synapses 

14. What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites? The Dendrites have a lifespan influenced on your daily activity. Their lifespan is influenced which is laid down by the activity. Multiple stimulations means you will have a better memory. Multi modal learning is a cross reference of data stored in your brain which may convert knowledge from something you have memorized to something you have learned. 

15. How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning? To fully understand a subject you must use big picture thinking, but while also breaking down the subject into smaller parts. Learning should be taught around problems such as where the learner is being put into context and you need to examine information from it. Rather than focusing on abstract facts, its about learning a technique that fits you whether its a story or humor or even a news article. 

16. Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very important.  Justify your reasoning. Glutamine plays a big role in how we learn as human beings. By having long term potential, it strengthens our synapses. Glutamine is also important for our brain because it helps us study, learning, and memorizing too. 

Limbic System

17. What does the corpus callosum do? The Corpus callosum is a thick band of nerve fibers and it connects the right and left hemisphere together. This is where you get your oral language skills and the ability to comprehend language. 

18. What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum? By studying music, this will help strengthen the conversation between the two hemispheres of your brain

19. Why is the thalamus important? Your Thalamus is important because it is responsible for motor control, sensory information, and state of consciousness. It also deals with memory and emotions 

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.

    From this Brain Map, i have learned that the Brain uses is an extremely complex organ. To begin, he frontal lobes  controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behavior. The neo cortex do is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language. Now for humans to be healthy we need to keep our synapses healthy meaning we must socialize, eat healthy and exercise, and eat salmon --> for the omega fatty acids. Then theres the "fast brain" and I'm guessing it is the part of the brain that quick thinks but i could be wrong since i couldn't find the answer to this question. And finally the most important part of the brain is the thalamus and that is responsible for motor control, sensory information, and state of consciousness. It also deals with memory and emotions.