Brain Map

The following is answered using this website.

Cerebral Cortex

1.      What do the frontal lobes do?

 It controls your personality, but it's also where problem solving, memory, language, judgement, and impulse control occur.

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

 Learning is all the information you are taught, selective attention is what paying more attention to the more important facts rather than the little details.

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 last part of your brain to develop, and there are certain exercises you can do to prevent it from deteriorating.

4.      What does the neo cortex do?

 It helps you to be able to navigate your body, it controls your senses, spatial awareness, and motor skills.

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

 It creates your personality and how you behave in social situations, it also organizes your thoughts and actions to match your internal goals.

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

 That multitasking doesn't exist and what's actually is happening is that the brain is just switching from one task to another.

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 production and language comprehension, and even people who have had a tumor in this part of the brain, were still able to speak perfectly fine. 

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 is responsible for interpreting temperature.

9.      What does your visual cortex do for you?

It takes the visual data and sends it to the other parts of the brain to identify and organize it.

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

It allows you to process short and long term memories, this part of the brain stores imagined and real autobiographical events, and imagining yourself doing a task over and over will improve your performance of the action in real life.

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

If it was damaged, you could loose your long term memory.

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

The eye fields are your "fast brain", it controls your eye movements and helps your brain register information really 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.

Three things that will help are sleep, eating a healthy diet, and exercising.

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

If you learn using multiple senses, then you will learn better than if you only learn it using only one of your senses.

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

It helps you learn the information since your brain stores the information in sort of a pattern.

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

Dopamine is released when you have an enjoyable experience, it's an important neurotransmitter because it helps keep important memories, since they set off the response that releases dopamine, it will stay in your memory.

Limbic System

17.  What does the corpus callosum do?

It connects the two hemispheres of the brain so that they can communicate and exchange information.

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

It helps the two hemispheres to communicate with each other more, which strengthens the connection and leaves a long lasting affect.

19.  Why is the thalamus important?
      It is responsible for motor control, sensory information, it also helps with your states of consciousness. You could not live without it, and if it gets damaged, you could go into a permanent coma.