My Brain Map

In this assignment I explored the "your brain map", which an interactive digital brain. We explored the Cerebral cortex, the neuron, and the Limbic system. We learned things like the neo cortex’s function is to govern your senses, spatial awareness, and motor skills. We learned the neurotransmitter transmit info across the synapse. And we learned the corpus callosum does more than just hold the two hemispheres together, it is a connection between the two sides as far as information goes. 

An interactive infographic by Open Colleges

Cerebral Cortex

1.     What do the frontal lobes do?

 Frontal lobes control personality, problem solving, language, judgment, and impulse control

.  What is the relationship between selective attention and learning?

 Selective attention makes your working capacity greater

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

 The frontal lobe, you can do exercises to prevent it from deteriorating

4.     What does the neo cortex do?

 The neo cortex’s function is to govern your senses, spatial awareness, and motor skills

5.     What is the role of the pre frontal cortex?

 Pre frontal Cortex control your personality, organizes your thoughts and actions to coincide with your goals

6.     What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking?

 There is no such thing as multitasking; the pre frontal cortex has a “central bottleneck” that prevents you from doing multiple tasks 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, they have found people who get tumors in this area have their speech unaffected.

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

      It helps you distinguish faces, without it everybody you know would look the same.

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

Occipital lobe is the visual processing center, if damaged it could cause blindness or hallucinations, and visualizing tasks can improve your performance in them.

  

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

If the temporal lobes were damaged we wouldn’t have a long term memory which would prevent us from learning the alphabet and reading

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

Eye fields, they control eye movements and help brain process information quickly

Neuron

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

Exercise, socializing, and sleep.

14. What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites?

If you do something that engages many parts of your brain, the cross-referencing of data converts the new knowledge from something you have memorized to something you have learned.

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

Studies show that you need “big picture thinking” to completely understand a subject. Mnemonics helped people associate the subject with already relevant information in order to recall it

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

 A neurotransmitter transmits signals across a chemical synapse to a target neuron or cell. Neurotransmitters are important because the transfer information along the cells that allow your body to do things like breath, have a heartbeat, and make your stomach digest.

Limbic System

17. What does the corpus callosum do?

 The corpus callosum communicates information from left and right hemispheres of the brain.  It deals with cognitive, motor, and sensory functions.

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

     Musical practice increase the communicating between the two hemispheres

19. Why is the thalamus important?

     The thalamus is important because it stores memories. Like a mental library.