Cerebral Cortex

1.   What do the frontal lobes do?

The Frontal lobes is the part of the brain that controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language,

2.   What is the relationship between selective attention and learning? Selective attention is the capacity for or process of reacting to certain stimuli selectively when several occur simultaneously, where learning is being able to process/ understand a new topic in depth and for your brain to process the information.

3.   What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating? The Frontal Lobe is the most recently-evolved part of the brain and the last to develop in young adulthood. It's dorso-lateral prefrontal circuit is the brain's top executive. Its hard to prevent it from deteriorating.

4.   What does the neo cortex do? is part of the cerebral cortex which are cortical parts of the limbic system). 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 In mammalian brain anatomy, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cerebral cortex which covers the front part of the frontal lobe.The prefrontal cortex is the cerebral cortex which covers the front part of the frontal lobe.

What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking? While the right and left sides of the prefrontal cortex work together when focused on a single task, the sides work independently when people attempt to perform two tasks at once. Multitasking doesn’t just slow you down and increase the number of mistakes you make; it temporarily changes the way your brain works.

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

The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for processing visual information.

The auditory cortex in the cerebral cortex processes auditory information and as part of the sensory system for hearing, performs both basic and higher hearing functions.

Wernicke's area is an area in the cerebral cortex related to speech and is involved in both spoken and written language. This area was named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist who discovered that the area is related to how words and syllables are pronounced.

Broca's area is an area in the frontal lobe of the brain that is related to the production of speech. The area is named after Pierre Paul Broca who noticed an impaired ability to produce speech in two patients who had sustained injury to the region.

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

8.   What does your visual cortex do for you? The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex that responsible for processing visual information.

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

1.     If our occipital lobe was impaired, or injured we would not be able to correctly process visual signals, thus visual confusion would result.

2.     The occipital lobe is the smallest of the lobes

3.     its located on the back on the brain

10.                 What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged? When damage occurs to these areas of the brain, patients may experience disturbance of auditory sensation and perception, an inability to pay attention to what they see or hear, impaired ability to comprehend language, impaired factual and long term memory, emotional disturbance, and altered sexual behaviors. They may also have seizures, lose their sense of humor, and become obsessive.

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

Your fast brain is how fast your brain can respond and process information.

Neuron

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

a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

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

is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion and taste, may be integrated by the nervous system

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

Because it makes you think harder which strengths the other parts of your brain.

15.                 Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very

important.  Justify your reasoning.

DOPAMINE is our main focus neurotransmitter.  When dopamine is either elevated or low – we can have focus issues such as not remembering where we put our keys, forgetting what a paragraph said when we just finished reading it or simply daydreaming and not being able to stay on task.  Dopamine is also responsible for our drive or desire to get things done – or motivation.  Stimulants such as medications for ADD/ADHD and caffeine cause dopamine to be pushed into the synapse so that focus is improved.  Unfortunately, stimulating dopamine consistently can cause a depletion of dopamine over time.

Limbic System

16.                 What does the corpus callosum do? is the part of the mind that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It is responsible for transmitting neural messages between both the right and left hemispheres.

17.                 What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum?  In 1995, a study led by neurologist and neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug found that professional musicians who started playing before the age of 7 have an unusually thick corpus callosum, the bundle of axons that serves as an information superhighway between the left and right sides of the brain. He also saw this as evidence that musical training can bolster neural connections, but skeptics pointed to the possibility that the musicians had bigger corpora callosa to begin with. Perhaps their neural wiring had enhanced their musical pursuits instead of the other way around.

18.                 Why is the thalamus important The thalams plays the role in regulating states of sleep and wakefulness

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.

1.   The brain is made up of different parts that control different functions that your body carries out. For instance your occipital lobe, the smallest of the lobes, located on the back of your brain is responsible for seeing visuiasl. The thalamus is very important because that helps us stay awake and sleep at night, it helps determine what time a day it is. the corpus callosum is also very important because it is what allows the two hemispheres to connect./communicate with one another, because they aren’t really connected. We have many neurotransmitters that travel through our body some of them include Gaba, dopamine, serotonin, empinephrine, ect… Finally the most important part of our brain is probably the frontal lobes because that lobe controls important cognitive skills in humans,